{
  "id": "0809.0467",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2008-09-02T16:38:14.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-11-04T17:37:28.000Z",
  "title": "Notes on Sela's work: Limit groups and Makanin-Razborov diagrams",
  "authors": [
    "Mladen Bestvina",
    "Mark Feighn"
  ],
  "comment": "33 pages, 2 figures",
  "journal": "Geometric and Cohomological Methods in Group Theory, LMS Lecture Note Series, No. 358(2009), 1-29",
  "categories": [
    "math.GR",
    "math.GT"
  ],
  "abstract": "This is the first in a planned series of papers giving an alternate approach to Zlil Sela's work on the Tarski problems. The present paper is an exposition of work of Kharlampovich-Myasnikov and Sela giving a parametrization of Hom(G,F) where G is a finitely generated group and F is a non-abelian free group.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2011-11-04T17:37:28.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "20F65",
      "20E05"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "makanin-razborov diagrams",
      "limit groups",
      "non-abelian free group",
      "zlil selas work",
      "alternate approach"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 33,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2008arXiv0809.0467B"
    }
  }
}