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FINITELY GENERATED GROUPS AND FIRST-ORDER LOGIC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2005

A. MOROZOV
Affiliation:
Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Koptyug prosp. 4, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia, morozov@math.nsc.ru
A. NIES
Affiliation:
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, nies@math.uchicago.edu
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Abstract

It is proved that the following classes of finitely generated groups have $\Pi_1^1$-complete first-order theories: all finitely generated groups, the $n$-generated groups, and the strictly $n$-generated groups ($n\,{\geqslant}\,2$). Moreover, all those theories are distinct. Similar techniques show that quasi-finitely axiomatizable groups have a hyperarithmetical word problem, where a finitely generated group is quasi-finitely axiomatizable if it is the only finitely generated group satisfying an appropriate first-order sentence. The Turing degrees of word problems of quasi-finitely axiomatizable groups form a cofinal set in the Turing degrees of hyperarithmetical sets.

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Notes and Papers
Copyright
The London Mathematical Society 2005

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