Decidability conjecture for deficiency-one metabelian groups

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Let GG be a metabelian group given by a full-rank presentation

G=⟨A∣R⟩M.G=\langle A\mid R\rangle_{\mathcal{M}}.

Deficiency-one decidability conjecture. If ∣A∣−∣R∣=1|A|-|R|=1, then the Diophantine problem in GG is decidable.

The cases of deficiency at most −2-2 and at least 00 are settled by the preceding theorem, while deficiency one remains an open case. Some deficiency-one presentations define groups with decidable Diophantine problem, including certain Baumslag–Solitar groups and cyclic groups, but the general case is unresolved.

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Albert Garreta, Leire Legarreta, Alexei Miasnikov and Denis Ovchinnikov, “Metabelian groups: full-rank presentations, randomness and Diophantine problems”, arXiv:2006.06371 (2020).

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