Farjoun's abelian-cokernel conjecture for group localizations

Let LL be a localization on the category of groups, let GG be a group, and let GLGG\to LG be the localization map. The cokernel of this map is the quotient of LGLG by the normal closure of the image of GG. Farjoun's abelian-cokernel conjecture. For any localization LL on the category of groups and any group GG, the cokernel of the map GLGG\to LG is abelian. The source proves that this conjecture fails for the Baumslag rationalization and the free group of rank 22, so the conjecture is refuted.

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Sergei O. Ivanov, “On the cokernel of the Baumslag rationalization”, arXiv:2102.04045 (2021).

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