Abstract
We show that, given a finitely generated group G as the coordinate group of a finite system of equations over a torsion-free hyperbolic group Γ, there is an algorithm which constructs a cover of a canonical solution diagram. The diagram encodes all homomorphisms from G to Γ as compositions of factorizations through Γ-NTQ groups and canonical automorphisms of the corresponding NTQ-subgroups. We also give another characterization of Γ-limit groups as iterated generalized doubles over Γ.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank N. Touikan for the important comments which helped improving the quality of the paper.
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