The positive-theory conjecture for non-cyclic one-relator groups

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A one-relator group is a group admitting a presentation with one defining relator. A group has trivial positive theory when every positive sentence true in some nontrivial group is true in it. The Baumslag–Solitar group is

BS(1,n)=a,yan=y1ay.BS(1,n)=\langle a,y\mid a^n=y^{-1}ay\rangle.

Positive-theory conjecture. A non-cyclic one-relator group has trivial positive theory unless it is isomorphic to BS(1,n)BS(1,n) for some nZn\in\mathbb Z. This is the positive-theory analogue of the conjecture characterising SQ-universal one-relator groups; the source presents it as a natural conjecture, with no resolution supplied.

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Montserrat Casals-Ruiz, Albert Garreta and Javier de la Nuez González, “On the positive theory of groups acting on trees”, arXiv:1910.09000 (2019).

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