On a problem of Day on nonelementary amenable groups in the class of finitely presented groups

DOI10.1007/BF02309174MaRDI QIDQ1387398zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. I. Grigorchuk

Publication date 4 August 1998

Published in Mathematical Notes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02309174

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07)

Review text

Let \(AG\) denote the class of all amenable groups. The class \(EG\) of elementary (amenable) groups was introduced by \textit{M. Day} in [Ill. J. Math. 1, 509-544 (1957; Zbl 0078.29402)] as the smallest class of groups that contains the finite and the commutative groups and is closed under the above operations. Day posed the following question: Do the classes \(AG\) and \(EG\) coincide? A negative answer to this question was given by the author in [Sov. Math., Dokl. 28, 23-26; translation from Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 271, 30-33 (1983; Zbl 0547.20025)]. A further problem arises: Does the relation \(AG=EG\) hold if we restrict ourselves to the class of finitely defined groups? We announce a negative solution to the problem in the class of finitely defined groups by means of another example.

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