Almost all one-relator groups with at least three generators are residually finite.

DOI10.4171/JEMS/255zbMath1225.20032arXiv0809.4693MaRDI QIDQ621852

Iva Špakulová, Mark V. Sapir

Publication date: 28 January 2011

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4693

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated subgroups; one-relator groups; residually finite groups; ascending HNN extensions; random groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20E07: Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20E06: Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations

20E26: Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups

20P05: Probabilistic methods in group theory

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2-polyhedra for which every homotopy domination over itself is a homotopy equivalence, Non-Noetherian groups and primitivity of their group algebras, Conjugacy and Other Properties of One-Relator Groups, Asymptotic invariants, complexity of groups and related problems

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