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Twisted Conjugacy in Houghton's groups

Group Theory 2017-07-24 v6

Abstract

For a fixed n2n\ge2, the Houghton group HnH_n consists of bijections of Xn={1,,n}×NX_n=\{1,\ldots,n\} \times \mathbb{N} that are `eventually translations' of each copy of N\mathbb{N}. The Houghton groups have been shown to have solvable conjugacy problem. In general solvable conjugacy problem does not imply that all finite extensions and finite index subgroups have solvable conjugacy problem. Our main theorem is that a stronger result holds: for any n2n\ge2 and any group GG commensurable to HnH_n, GG has solvable conjugacy problem.

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@article{arxiv.1410.7051,
  title  = {Twisted Conjugacy in Houghton's groups},
  author = {Charles Garnet Cox},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.7051},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

38 pages, 2 figures; to appear in J. Algebra (v5 incorporated the reviewers comments. v4 extended the main result with some of the proofs being rewritten for greater clarity. v2 has been reordered and exchanges the incorrect method using Lemma 4.26 for a shorter argument using facts about centralisers)

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