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On the Bass–Lubotzky Question about Quotients of Hyperbolic Groups

✍ Scribed by A.Yu. Ol'shanskii


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
99 KB
Volume
226
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-8693

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✦ Synopsis


We prove at Theorem 1 that any non-elementary hyperbolic group G possesses a non-trivial finitely presented quotient Q having no non-trivial subgroups of finite indices. The theorem was ''commissioned'' in August 1997 by H. Bass and A. Lubotzky because the statement was required to constructing of their counterw x examples to Platonov's conjecture on the representation rigid linear groups BL . Theorem 2 gives three equivalent reformulations of the known problem on existence of non-residually finite hyperbolic groups. ᮊ 2000 Academic Press defined.