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Tarski's problem for varieties of groups with a commutator identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

John Lawrence*
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada

Abstract

It is proved that for a variety of groups in which the relatively free groups are solvable, the relatively free groups of distinct finite rank are not elementarily equivalent.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1986

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