Undecidability of epimorphisms onto products of hyperbolic groups
Group Theory
2025-12-30 v1
Abstract
We exhibit examples of finitely presented subgroups of direct products of hyperbolic groups for which there is no algorithm that detects whether a finitely presented group has a quotient isomorphic to . For any torsion-free, linear, hyperbolic group that maps onto the free group of rank and , we construct a recursive sequence of torsion-free, hyperbolic small cancellation groups, with the property that there is no algorithm determining the values such that has a quotient isomorphic to the direct product of -copies of .
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@article{arxiv.2512.22841,
title = {Undecidability of epimorphisms onto products of hyperbolic groups},
author = {Konstantinos Tsouvalas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22841},
year = {2025}
}
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