On identities in groups of fractions of cancellative semigroups

Abstract

To solve two problems of Bergman stated in 1981, we construct a group G such that G contains a free noncyclic subgroup (hence, G satisfies no group identity) and G, as a group, is generated by its subsemigroup that satisfies a nontrivial semigroup identity.

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