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For a variety of finite groups $\mathbf H$, let $\overline{\mathbf H}$ denote the variety of finite semigroups all of whose subgroups lie in $\mathbf H$. We give a characterization of the subsets of a finite semigroup that are pointlike…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Samuel J. v. Gool , B. Steinberg

In this note we prove the following results: $\bullet$ If a finitely presented group $G$ admits a strongly aperiodic SFT, then $G$ has decidable word problem. More generally, for f.g. groups that are not recursively presented, there exists…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Emmanuel Jeandel

We study a family of groups consisting of the simplest extensions of lamplighter groups. We use these groups to answer multiple open questions in combinatorial group theory, providing groups that exhibit various combinations of properties:…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Corentin Bodart

We provide new computations in bounded cohomology: A group is boundedly acyclic if its bounded cohomology with trivial real coefficients is zero in all positive degrees. We show that there exists a continuum of finitely generated…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-24 Francesco Fournier-Facio , Clara Loeh , Marco Moraschini

In this work we introduce a new succinct variant of the word problem in a finitely generated group $G$, which we call the power word problem: the input word may contain powers $p^x$, where $p$ is a finite word over generators of $G$ and $x$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Markus Lohrey , Armin Weiß

The deficiency of a group is the maximum over all presentations for that group of the number of generators minus the number of relators. Every finite group has non-positive deficiency. We show that every non-positive integer is the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Giles Gardam

We establish a cubic lower bound on the Dehn function of a certain finitely presented subgroup of a direct product of 3 free groups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-01-07 Will Dison

We address the problem of which functions can arise as Dehn functions of K\"ahler groups. We explain why there are examples of K\"ahler groups with linear, quadratic, and exponential Dehn function. We then proceed to show that there is an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Claudio Llosa Isenrich , Romain Tessera

We define the notion of computability of F{\o}lner sets for finitely generated amenable groups. We prove, by an explicit description, that the Kharlampovich group, a finitely presented solvable group with unsolvable word problem, has…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Matteo Cavaleri

We prove that every countable group with solvable power problem embeds into a finitely presented 2-generated group with solvable power and conjugacy problems.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Yu. Olshanskii , M. V. Sapir

We investigate partial Equality and Word Problems for finitely generated groups. After introducing Upper Banach (UB) density on free groups, we prove that solvability of the Equality Problem on squares of UB-generic sets implies solvability…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-26 Angela Carnevale , Matteo Cavaleri

We construct a finitely presented group with property (T) which can not act on on reasonable spaces. Such group is constructed using an generalization of Hall embedding theorem, where property (T) is added at the expense of weakening the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Indira Chatterji , Martin Kassabov

We introduce the notion of a subgraph generated by an $R$-word $r$ of the Sch\"{u}tzenberger graph of a positive word $w$, $S\Gamma(w)$, where $w$ contains $r$ as its subword. We show that the word problem for a finitely presented Adian…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Muhammad Inam

We prove that, for every integer $n \ge 2$, a finite or infinite countable group $G$ can be embedded into a 2-generated group $H$ in such a way that the solvability of quadratic equations of length at most $n$ is preserved, i.e., every…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Desmond F. Cummins , Sergei V. Ivanov

William W. Boone and Graham Higman proved that a finitely generated group has soluble word problem if and only if it can be embedded in a simple group that can be embedded in a finitely presented group. We prove the exact analogue for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-10-10 A. M. W. Glass

We provide examples of groups with transcendental spectral radius: We first construct finitely presented examples, using links between decidability of the Word Problem and semi-computability of the spectral radius. This argument extends to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Corentin Bodart , Denis Osin

We prove that groups in a certain class of metabelian locally compact groups, have quadratic Dehn function. As an application, we embed the solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups into finitely presented metabelian groups with quadratic Dehn…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-01-25 Yves Cornulier , Romain Tessera

We show that the compressed word problem in a finitely-generated fully residually free group (F -group) is decidable in polynomial time, and use the result to show that the word problem in the automorphism group of such a group is decidable…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-10-21 Jeremy Macdonald

We consider the computational problem of determining the unit group of a finite ring, by which we mean the computation of a finite presentation together with an algorithm to express units as words in the generators. We show that the problem…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Tommy Hofmann

The conjugator length function of a finitely generated group is the function $f$ so that $f(n)$ is the minimal upper bound on the length of a word realizing the conjugacy of two words of length at most $n$. We study herein the spectrum of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Conan Gillis , Francis Wagner