Limits of relatively hyperbolic groups and Lyndon's completions

作者：Kharlampovich Olga^*; Myasnikov Alexei

来源：Journal of the European Mathematical Society, 2012, 14(3): 659-680.

DOI：10.4171/JEMS/314

We describe finitely generated groups H universally equivalent (with constants from G in the language) to a given torsion-free relatively hyperbolic group G with free abelian parabolics. It turns out that, as in the free group case, the group H embeds into Lyndon's completion G(Z[t]) of the group G, or, equivalently, H embeds into a group obtained from G by finitely many extensions of centralizers. Conversely, every subgroup of G(Z[t]) containing G is universally equivalent to G. Since finitely generated groups universally equivalent to G are precisely the finitely generated groups discriminated by G, the result above gives a description of finitely generated groups discriminated by G. Moreover, these groups are exactly the coordinate groups of irreducible algebraic sets over G.

• 出版日期2012