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 groups; free groups; equations over groups; limit groups; JSJ-decompositions; Makanin-Razborov diagrams; residually free groups; Diophantine geometry over groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F65: Geometric group theory

20E36: Automorphisms of infinite groups

03B25: Decidability of theories and sets of sentences

20E05: Free nonabelian groups

20F10: Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects)

20E26: Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups

20F70: Algebraic geometry over groups; equations over groups

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