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A torsion-free hyperbolic group that is neither residually finite nor linear over any field
Constructs a torsion-free word-hyperbolic group that is not residually finite, answering the residual-finiteness question negatively. One fixed nonidentity element is killed by every finite-dimensional linear representation over every commutative field, so the group is not linear over any such field.
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A torsion-free hyperbolic group that is not residually finite
Sep 23, 2026·paper.pdfLean
We construct a torsion-free word-hyperbolic group that is not residually finite, answering the residual-finiteness question for hyperbolic groups negatively.