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Subgroups of finitely presented metabelian groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Gilbert Baumslag
Gilbert Baumslag
Affiliation:
Rice University, Houston, Texas, U. S. A.
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In 1961 Graham Higman [1] proved that a finitely generated group is a subgroup of a finitely presented group if, and only if, it is recursively presented. Therefore a finitely generated metabelian group can be embedded in a finitely presented group.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , August 1973 , pp. 98 - 110
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1973

References

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