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The theorem we present, due to G. Baumslag, is a milestone in the study of metabelian group theory and is a refinement of a 1961 result by Higman. It states that any finitely generated metabelian group can be embedded in a finitely presented metabelian group.
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Bencsáth, K.A., Bonanome, M.C., Dean, M.H., Zyman, M. (2013). An Embedding Theorem for Finitely Generated Metabelian Groups. In: Lectures on Finitely Generated Solvable Groups. SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5450-2_7
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