Relative Boone--Higman conjecture

A normal pair is a pair (G,N)(G,N) consisting of a group and a normal subgroup. A group Γ\Gamma sharply embeds in (G,N)(G,N) when the normal pair (Γ,{1})(\Gamma,\{1\}) embeds in (G,N)(G,N); a group is relatively simple when it has a largest normal subgroup in the sense defined in the source.

Relative Boone--Higman conjecture. Let Γ\Gamma be a finitely generated group with solvable word problem. Then Γ\Gamma sharply embeds in a finitely presented relatively simple group.

This is a relative strengthening of the Boone--Higman conjecture. The source relates it to embeddings that intersect every proper normal subgroup trivially and leaves the conjecture open.

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Francesco Fournier-Facio, Xiaolei Wu and Matthew C. B. Zaremsky, “Abstract twisted Brin–Thompson groups”, arXiv:2603.24687 (2026).

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