An extension of a finitely presented group by a finitely presented group is finitely presented
ProvedGroupFiniteness.isFinitelyPresented_of_extensioncombinatorial-group-theoryfinitely-presented-groupsgroup-theory
Let be a normal subgroup of a group such that both and the quotient are finitely presented. Then is finitely presented.
A presentation of is obtained from generators of together with lifts of generators of , with relations: the relations of , the relations of read as words that land in and then expressed in the generators of , and the conjugation relations expressing in the generators of for each generator of the lift and each generator of .
The weaker-looking hypothesis that is merely finitely generated and finitely presented does not suffice: taking would make every finitely generated group finitely presented.
Preamble
import Mathlib
Formal statement
namespace GroupFiniteness
/-- P. Hall: an extension of a finitely presented group by a finitely presented group is finitely
presented. Note that the weaker-looking hypothesis "`N` finitely generated and `G ⧸ N` finitely
presented" does **not** suffice: taking `N = G` would make every finitely generated group finitely
presented. -/
theorem isFinitelyPresented_of_extension {G : Type*} [Group G] (N : Subgroup G) [N.Normal]
[Group.IsFinitelyPresented N] [Group.IsFinitelyPresented (G ⧸ N)] :
Group.IsFinitelyPresented G := by
sorry
end GroupFiniteness
Source
Standard; due to P. Hall, Finiteness conditions for soluble groups, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society s3-4 (1954) 419–436, https://doi.org/10.1112/plms/s3-4.1.419, where finite presentability of such extensions is part of the finiteness-condition theory. The statement here is the general group-theoretic fact, not a result of any one paper of the missions this was developed for.