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Does every group embed into a co-hopfian group?

Like with many problems solvable by small cancellation methods, the answer can be found by looking at A.Yu. Ol'shanskii's papers. Indeed, take any countable group $H$. Without loss of generality we …
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Is an HNN extension of a virtually torsion-free group virtually torsion-free?

It is easy to construct a counter-example when $H$ and $K$ are not of finite index in $G$. Let $A$ be a finitely presented torsion-free group which is not residually finite (e.g., the Baumslag-Solita …
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Commutator problem vs conjugacy/word problem

Denis Osin [Osin, Denis, Small cancellations over relatively hyperbolic groups and embedding theorems, Ann. Math. (2) 172, No. 1, 1-39 (2010). ZBL1203.20031.] proved that every torsion-free countable …
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