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The geometry of twisted conjugacy classes in wreath products

Group Theory 2011-05-11 v2

Abstract

We give a geometric proof based on recent work of Eskin, Fisher and Whyte that the lamplighter group LnL_n has infinitely many twisted conjugacy classes for any automorphism \vp\vp only when nn is divisible by 2 or 3, originally proved by Gon\c{c}alves and Wong. We determine when the wreath product GZG \wr \Z has this same property for several classes of finite groups GG, including symmetric groups and some nilpotent groups.

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@article{arxiv.0805.1371,
  title  = {The geometry of twisted conjugacy classes in wreath products},
  author = {Jennifer Taback and Peter Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.1371},
  year   = {2011}
}

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19 pages, 4 figures