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Commutator length of powers in free products of groups

Group Theory 2022-03-16 v4

Abstract

Given groups AA and BB, what is the minimal commutator length of the 2020th (for instance) power of an element gABg\in A*B not conjugate to elements of the free factors? The exhaustive answer to this question is still unknown, but we can give an almost answer: this minimum is one of two numbers (simply depending on AA and BB). Other similar problems are also considered.

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@article{arxiv.2008.02861,
  title  = {Commutator length of powers in free products of groups},
  author = {Vadim Yu. Bereznyuk and Anton A. Klyachko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.02861},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

11 pages, 4 figures. A Russian version of this paper is at http://halgebra.math.msu.su/staff/klyachko/papers.htm . V2: misprints corrected. V3: several corrections in the proofs --- the results remain unchanged. V4: A misprint is corrected