Mathematics – Group Theory
Scientific paper
2007-10-22
Mathematics
Group Theory
34 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
In this version small mistakes are corrected and the exposition is changed as suggested by the referee (to appear in Canadian Journal of Mathematics). The first main result of the paper is a criterion for a partially commutative group $\GG$ to be a domain. It allows us to reduce the study of algebraic sets over $\GG$ to the study of irreducible algebraic sets, and reduce the elementary theory of $\GG$ (of a coordinate group over $\GG$) to the elementary theories of the direct factors of $\GG$ (to the elementary theory of coordinate groups of irreducible algebraic sets). Then we establish normal forms for quantifier-free formulas over a non-abelian directly indecomposable partially commutative group $\HH$. Analogously to the case of free groups, we introduce the notion of a generalised equation and prove that the positive theory of $\HH$ has quantifier elimination and that arbitrary first-order formulas lift from $\HH$ to $\HH\ast F$, where $F$ is a free group of finite rank. As a consequence, the positive theory of an arbitrary partially commutative group is decidable.
Casals-Ruiz Montserrat
Kazachkov Ilya V.
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