The embeddability-complexity conjecture for finitely presented groups

Let P1,P2,P_1,P_2,\ldots be an enumeration of all finite presentations of groups, with Pi=XiRiP_i=\langle X_i\mid R_i\rangle, and define

K={i,jNPiPj}.K=\{\langle i,j\rangle\in\mathbb{N}\mid \overline{P}_i\hookrightarrow\overline{P}_j\}.

Embeddability-complexity conjecture. The set KK is Σ30\Sigma^0_3-complete. Equivalently, deciding whether Pi\overline{P}_i embeds into Pj\overline{P}_j for finite presentations PiP_i and PjP_j is a Σ30\Sigma^0_3-complete problem. The preceding results establish that KK is Σ20\Sigma^0_2-hard and Π20\Pi^0_2-hard and has a Σ30\Sigma^0_3 description; the conjecture asserts that this upper bound is sharp.

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Maurice Chiodo, “On torsion in finitely presented groups”, arXiv:1107.1489 (2016).

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