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

Group Theory 2011-11-07 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

This is the first in a planned series of papers giving an alternate approach to Zlil Sela's work on the Tarski problems. The present paper is an exposition of work of Kharlampovich-Myasnikov and Sela giving a parametrization of Hom(G,F) where G is a finitely generated group and F is a non-abelian free group.

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@article{arxiv.0809.0467,
  title  = {Notes on Sela's work: Limit groups and Makanin-Razborov diagrams},
  author = {Mladen Bestvina and Mark Feighn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.0467},
  year   = {2011}
}

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33 pages, 2 figures

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