Extensions of a residually finite group by a weakly sofic group are weakly sofic (Q6172752)

Sofic groups were introduced by \textit{M. Gromov} [J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 1, No. 2, 109--197 (1999; Zbl 0998.14001)] as a common generalization of amenable and residually finite groups. The class of sofic groups is closed under taking subgroups, free products and extensions by amenable groups. In the paper under review, the author shows that every extension of a weakly sofic group by a residually finite group is weakly sofic (the notion of weakly sofic group was introduced by the author and by \textit{L. M. Rivera} in [J. Algebra 320, No. 9, 3512--3518 (2008; Zbl 1162.20015)]).