[GAP Forum] problem on finite subgroup of infinite, fp group

[Hulpke,Alexander]

Dear Forum, Dear Barry Monson,

More to acknowledge that at least one person has read you email, rather than being able to offer any constructive solution:

I think what you are posing is a hard problem that has no good solution (in fact I suspect that it is unsolvable in the same sense as the word problem is), unless there are further properties (say a faithful matrix representation of G, or a confluent rewriting system for G) that came from other sources.

Sorry!

   Alexander Hulpke

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