Notes on Sela's work: Limit groups and Makanin-Razborov diagrams

zbMath1213.20039arXiv0809.0467MaRDI QIDQ3079700

Mladen Bestvina, Mark E. Feighn

Publication date: 2 March 2011

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0467

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsfree groupsequations over groupslimit groupsJSJ-decompositionsMakanin-Razborov diagramsresidually free groupsDiophantine geometry over groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Decidability of theories and sets of sentences (03B25) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Algebraic geometry over groups; equations over groups (20F70)

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