Timeline for Is every finitely generated group colimit of residually finite groups
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| Oct 22, 2018 at 12:01 | comment | added | YCor | For context, these are called LEF groups. LEF means "locally embeddable in finite" (groups). Such a notion makes sense for much more general algebraic structures, see Malcev's book "algebraic systems"; in the context of groups it was later specified by Stëpin, and then Vershik-Gordon. For finitely presented groups, LEF is equivalent to residually finite. | |
| Oct 25, 2010 at 17:11 | vote | accept | HenrikRüping | ||
| Oct 25, 2010 at 16:02 | history | edited | Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen |
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| Oct 25, 2010 at 14:49 | answer | added | Andreas Thom | timeline score: 12 | |
| Oct 25, 2010 at 14:18 | history | asked | HenrikRüping | CC BY-SA 2.5 |