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Characterization of sofic groups and equations over groups

Group Theory 2015-06-25 v4

Abstract

We give the following characterization of sofic (weakly sofic) groups: a group GG is sofic (weakly sofic) if and only if any system of equations solvable in any alternating group (any finite group) is solvable over GG.

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@article{arxiv.1405.7329,
  title  = {Characterization of sofic groups and equations over groups},
  author = {Lev Glebsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.7329},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to all its results are in 1506.06940. The paper 1506.06940 contains more general and clearly written results

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