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Reversibility of Affine Transformations

Group Theory 2023-10-10 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

An element gg in a group GG is called reversible if gg is conjugate to g1g^{-1} in G G . An element gg in GG is strongly reversible if g g is conjugate to g1g^{-1} by an involution in GG. The group of affine transformations of Dn\mathbb{D}^n may be identified with the semi-direct product GL(n,D)Dn\mathrm{GL}(n, \mathbb{D}) \ltimes \mathbb{D}^n , where D:=R,C\mathbb{D}:=\mathbb{R}, \mathbb{C} or H \mathbb{H} . This paper classifies reversible and strongly reversible elements in the affine group GL(n,D)Dn\mathrm{GL}(n, \mathbb{D}) \ltimes \mathbb{D}^n .

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@article{arxiv.2211.11606,
  title  = {Reversibility of Affine Transformations},
  author = {Krishnendu Gongopadhyay and Tejbir Lohan and Chandan Maity},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11606},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Final version, 9 pages, To appear in Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society

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