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A family of groups with nice word problems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2009
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This paper is an outgrowth of my old battle with the open sentence problem for the theory of finite groups. The unsolvability of the word problem for groups (cf. [1] and [4]) entails the undecidability of the open sentence problem for the elementary theory of groups and thus strengthens the original undecidability result for this theory (cf. [7]). The fact that the elementary theory of finite groups is also undecidable (cf. [2] and [6]) therefore justifies my interest in the open sentence problem for that theory. This paper contains a construction of groups that might lead to a negative solution.
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