2025/05/02 by Martina Conte, Conte, Martina, Jan Moritz Petschick +1 · 1 citation
Mathematics · #20E26 #20F10 #20F18 #22C05 #Advanced Topics in Algebra #FOS: Mathematics #Group Theory (math.GR) #Logic (math.LO) #Primary 20A15 #Secondary 03C60
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2505.01411
openalex publication_date 2025/05/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A word w is concise in a class of groups C if, for every group G in C, the verbal subgroup w(G) is finite whenever w takes only finitely many values in G. This notion can be naturally extended to first-order formulae in the language of groups. We consider this more general setting and establish conciseness for various classes of groups and formulae. We prove that all formulae are concise in the class of abelian groups and that every existential formula is concise in the class of torsion-free locally class-2 nilpotent groups. In addition, we construct new examples of weakly rational words, which allow us to produce a wide variety of formulae that are concise in the class of residually finite groups.