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A RESIDUALLY FINITE VERSION OF RIPS'S CONSTRUCTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2003

DANIEL T. WISE
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Malott Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, [email protected] Current address: Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2K6, Canada
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Abstract

For each finitely presented group $Q$ , a short exact sequence $1 \rightarrow N \rightarrow G \rightarrow Q \rightarrow 1$ is produced, such that $G$ is residually finite and $N$ is finitely generated.

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© The London Mathematical Society 2003

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Partially supported by NSF grant no. DMS-9971511.