Classes of groups generalizing a theorem of Benjamin Baumslag.

DOI10.1080/00927872.2014.984837zbMATH Open1346.20022arXiv1210.3950OpenAlexW1566710987MaRDI QIDQ2802216FDOQ2802216

Authors: Laura Ciobanu, Ben Fine, Gerhard Rosenberger 

Publication date: 25 April 2016

Published in: Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In [BB] Benjamin Baumslag proved that being fully residually free is equivalent to being residually free and commutative transitive (CT). Gaglione and Spellman [GS] and Remeslennikov [Re] showed that this is also equivalent to being universally free, that is, having the same universal theory as the class of nonabelian free groups. This result is one of the cornerstones of the proof of the Tarksi problems. In this paper we extend the class of groups for which Benjamin Baumslag's theorem is true, that is we consider classes of groups $X$ for which being fully residually $X$ is equivalent to being residually $X$ and commutative transitive. We show that the classes of groups for which this is true is quite extensive and includes free products of cyclics not containing the infinite dihedral group, torsion-free hyperbolic groups (done in [KhM]), and one-relator groups with only odd torsion. Further, the class of groups having this property is closed under certain amalgam constructions, including free products and free products with malnormal amalgamated subgroups. We also consider extensions of these classes to classes where the equivalence with universally $X$ groups is maintained.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3950

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zbMATH Keywords

limit groupsfully residually free groupscommutative transitivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Geometric group theory (20F65) Algebraic geometry over groups; equations over groups (20F70)

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