Subgroups of direct products of elementarily free groups

preprint2005arXivOpen access

Abstract

We exploit Zlil Sela's description of the structure of groups having the same elementary theory as free groups: they and their finitely generated subgroups form a prescribed subclass E of the hyperbolic limit groups. We prove that if G1,...,GnG_1,...,G_n are in E then a subgroup Γ⊂G1×...×GnΓ\subset G_1\times...\times G_n is of type $\FP_n$ if and only if ΓΓ is itself, up to finite index, the direct product of at most nn groups from E\mathcal E. This answers a question of Sela.

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