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Intuitive meaning of benign subgroup

Disclaimer! This is a copy of a question I posted on M.SE! I still think the question belongs there but I'm not getting any answers so I'm dublicating with slight changes: I've been studying a proof o …
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Why is "The Higman Rope Trick" thus named?

Well, Sam Nead and Flounderer got it right but in different ways... :-) I took up Sam's idea and asked Schupp directly. He said Flounderer was right, and I'll quote: "The answer on mathoverflow is exa …
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Why is "The Higman Rope Trick" thus named?

I'm studiyng Higman's Embedding Theorem, and a fundamental part of the proof is the following lemma: If R is a benign normal subgroup of finitely generated group F, then F/R can be embedded in a finit …
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