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What is this quotient of the free product?
Previously asked at MSE. The construction here can generalize to arbitrary algebras (in the sense of universal algebra) in the same signature with the only needed tweak being the replacement of "...
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Finitely presentable groups are residually finite if and only if they are universally pseudofinite
Suppose $G$ is finitely presentable. Then residual finiteness of $G$ is equivalent to $G$ satisfying the universal theory of finite groups (equivalently, to every existential statement true in $G$ ...
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Is having a Frobenius pair first-order expressible in the language of groups?
I am trying to figure out whether or not the following property is first-order expressible in the language of groups.
$$\text{$G$ has a subgroup $H$ with which it forms a Frobenius pair $(H,G)$.}$$
My ...
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Is “simplicity is elementary” still hard? (Felgner’s 1990 theorem on simple groups, and subsequent work)
I came across a reference in this MathOverflow answer to an intriguing result of Ulrich Felgner [1]: among finite non-Abelian groups, the property of being simple is first-order definable. According ...
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Logical generators of groups and $\mathrm{Aut}$-bases
An element $s$ of a group $G$ is a logical generator of $G$ iff every element of $G$ can be defined in the first order language of groups with $s$ as a parameter. In this case we may call $G$ a ...
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Equivalence of category of internal groups and the category of groups
Is the category of internal groups in set equivalent to the category of groups or isomorphic to it or are they just equal?
When we define an internal group in Set since the product is unique only up ...
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Quantifier elimination for abelian groups
In the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantifier_elimination#cite_note-4) it is said that every abelian group has quantifier elimination property and a long old paper of W. Szmielew ...
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On a result by Rubin on elementary equivalence of homeomorphism groups and homeomorphisms of the underlying spaces
In the known paper On the reconstruction of topological spaces from their group of homeomorphisms by Matatyahu Rubin several deep reconstruction theorems of the form "if $X$ and $Y$ are ...
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Groups with three conjugacy classes that define an ordering
Consider the following property for a group $(\mathcal{G},\cdot,1)$:
There are exactly three conjugacy classes $\{1\}$, $\mathcal{C}_1$, $\mathcal{C}_2$ in $\mathcal{G}$, and we have $\mathcal{C}_1 \...
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Is there a pseudofinite group with a quantifier-free instance of the order property?
Recall that a group $G$ is pseudofinite if every first-order sentence $\varphi$ (in the language of groups) satisfied in $G$ is also satisfied in some finite group. Also recall that an instance of the ...
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A lemma from Jarden's and Lubotzky's paper 'Elementary equivalence of profinite groups'
I have a question about a reduction argument from
Jarden's and Lubotzky's paper 'Elementary equivalence of
profinite groups' in Lemma 1.1 on page 3:
Lemma 1.1: For each positive integer $n$ and each ...
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Is an abelian group of bounded exponent $\aleph_0$-categorical
For an abelian torsion group of finite exponent, i.e. there is an integer $n$ such that $g^n=1$ for all $g\in G$, its theory appears to be $\aleph_0$-categorical by the theorem of Engeler, Ryll-...
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Is Thompson's group definably orderable?
Is Thompson's group $F$ definably left-orderable? definably bi-orderable?
Orderability definitions: Recall that a group $G$ is left-orderable (resp. bi-orderable) if it admits a left-invariant (resp. ...
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Do there exist acyclic simple groups of arbitrarily large cardinality?
Recall that a group $G$ is acyclic if its group homology vanishes: $H_\ast(G; \mathbb Z) = 0$. Equivalently, $G$ is acyclic iff the space $BG$ is acyclic, i.e. $\tilde H_\ast(BG;\mathbb Z) = 0$.
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Is the equational theory of groups axiomatized by the associative law?
Consider the class of groups in the signature {*}. Is the equational theory of that class axiomatized by the associative law? I asked this on math stack exchange but I didn't receive a satisfactory ...
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