Ascending HNN extensions of residually finite groups can be non-Hopfian and can have very few finite quotients

DOI10.1016/S0022-4049(01)00003-2MaRDI QIDQ5956877zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mark Sapir, Daniel T. Wise

Publication date 21 October 2002

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-4049(01)00003-2

zbMATH Keywords

ascending HNN extensionsfinitely generated residually finite groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Periodic groups; locally finite groups (20F50)

Review text

This is a very well written article, containing besides some first class-results, the history of the question, prospective open problems, and some thoughtful comments. The main aim of this work is to provide us with two sophisticated examples of an ascending HNN extension of a finitely generated residually finite group, which is not residually finite. One of these examples constructs an ascending HNN extension of a finitely generated residually finite group, which is not Hopfian (i.e. this group is not isomorphic to a proper quotient). Another example is about an ascending HNN extension of a finitely generated residually finite group with very few quotients, which is not residually finite.

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