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We prove that fundamental groups of non-orientable 3-manifolds have a solvable conjugacy problem, and construct an algorithm. Together with our earlier work on the conjugacy problem in groups on orientable geometrizable 3-manifolds, all…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-14 Jean-Philippe Préaux

Consider a relatively hyperbolic group G. We prove that if G is finitely presented, so are its parabolic subgroups. Moreover, a presentation of the parabolic subgroups can be found algorithmically from a presentation of G, a solution of its…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-01 François Dahmani , Vincent Guirardel

There exist right angled Artin groups $A$ such that the isomorphism problem for finitely presented subgroups of $A$ is unsolvable, and for certain finitely presented subgroups the conjugacy and membership problems are unsolvable. It follows…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-25 Martin R. Bridson

The computational complexity of the word problem in HNN-extension of groups is studied. HNN-extension is a fundamental construction in combinatorial group theory. It is shown that the word problem for an ascending HNN-extension of a group H…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Markus Lohrey

Let $G$ be a finite group, let $x \in G$, and let $p$ be a prime. We prove that the commutator $[x,g]$ is a $p$-element for every $g \in G$ if and only if $x$ is central modulo $\mathbf{O}_p(G)$, where $\mathbf{O}_p(G)$ denotes the largest…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Hung P. Tong-Viet

Let $ x $ be an element of a finite group $ G $ and denote the order of $ x $ by $ \mathrm{ord}(x) $. We consider a finite group $ G $ such that $ \gcd(\mathrm{ord}(x),\mathrm{ord}(y))\leqslant 2 $ for any two vanishing elements $ x $ and $…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Sesuai Y. Madanha , Bernardo G. Rodrigues

We show that the conjugacy problem in a wreath product $A \wr B$ is uniform-$\mathsf{TC}^0$-Turing-reducible to the conjugacy problem in the factors $A$ and $B$ and the power problem in $B$. If $B$ is torsion free, the power problem for $B$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Alexei Miasnikov , Svetla Vassileva , Armin Weiß

A remarkable result of Thompson states that a finite group is soluble if and only if its two-generated subgroups are soluble. This result has been generalized in numerous ways, and it is in the core of a wide area of research in the theory…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-12 P. Hauck , L. S. Kazarin , A. Martínez-Pastor , M. D. Pérez-Ramos

A classical conjecture by Graham Higman states that the number of conjugacy classes of $U_n(q)$, the group of upper triangular $n\times n$ matrices over $\mathbb{F}_q$, is polynomial in $q$, for all $n$. In this paper we present both…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-03 Igor Pak , Andrew Soffer

Reidemeister (or twisted conjugacy) classes are considered in restricted wreath products of the form $G\wr \mathbb{Z}^k$, where $G$ is a finite group. For an automorphism $\varphi$ of finite order (supposed to be the same for the torsion…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Evgenij Troitsky

The isomorphism problem for infinite finitely presented groups is probably the hardest among standard algorithmic problems in group theory. Classes of groups where it has been completely solved are nilpotent groups, hyperbolic groups, and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Vladimir Shpilrain

We analyse the geometry and complexity of the conjugacy problem in a family of free-by-cyclic groups $H_m=F_m\rtimes\mathbb{Z}$ where the defining free-group automorphism is positive and polynomially growing. We prove that the conjugator…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Martin R. Bridson , Timothy R. Riley , Andrew W. Sale

Consider the Deligne-Simpson problem: {\em give necessary and sufficient conditions for the choice of the conjugacy classes $C_j\subset GL(n,{\bf C})$ (resp. $c_j\subset gl(n,{\bf C})$) so that there exist irreducible $(p+1)$-tuples of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Kostov

Let G be a group and H be a Hartley set of G. In this paper, we prove the existence and conjugacy of H-injectors of G and describe the structure of the injectors. As application, some known results are directly followed.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-26 Nanying Yang , N. T. Vorobev , T. B. Vasilevich

For a finite group $G$ and a positive integer $n$, let $G(n)$ be the set of all elements in $G$ such that $x^{n}=1$. The groups $G$ and $H$ are said to be of the same (order) type if $G(n)=H(n)$, for all $n$. The main aim of this paper is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Seyed Hassan Alavi , Ashraf Daneshkhah , Hosein Parvizi Mosaed

We prove that every finitely presentable group G arises as the fundamental group of an orientable 3-complex obtained from a hyperbolic link complement, by coning each boundary torus of the link exterior to a distinct point. We define the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-08-10 Iain R. Aitchison

In this paper we provide an alternative solution to a result by Juh\'{a}sz that the twisted conjugacy problem for odd dihedral Artin groups is solvable, that is, groups with presentation $G(m) = \langle a,b \; | \; _{m}(a,b) = {}_{m}(b,a)…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Gemma Crowe

In this paper, we study the descriptive set theoretic complexity of the equivalence relation of conjugacy of Toeplitz subshifts of a residually finite group $G$. On the one hand, we show that if $G = \mathbb{Z}$, then topological conjugacy…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Marcin Sabok , Todor Tsankov

We establish several new bounds for the number of conjugacy classes of a finite group, all of which involve the maximal number c of conjugacy classes of a normal subgroup fixed by some element of a suitable subset of the group. To apply…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Michael Keller

A central conjecture in inverse Galois theory, proposed by D\`{e}bes and Deschamps, asserts that every finite split embedding problem over an arbitrary field can be regularly solved. We give an unconditional proof of a consequence of this…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Arno Fehm , François Legrand , Elad Paran