Eventually fixed points of endomorphisms of virtually free groups
Abstract
We consider the subgroup of points of finite orbit through the action of an endomorphism of a virtually free group, with particular emphasis on the subgroup of eventually fixed points, EvFix(): points whose orbit contains a fixed point. We provide an algorithm to compute the subgroup of fixed points of an endomorphism of a finitely generated virtually free group and prove that finite orbits have cardinality bounded by a computable constant, which allows us to solve several algorithmic problems: deciding if is a finite order element of End(), if is aperiodic, if EvFix() is finitely generated and, in the free group case, whether EvFix() is a normal subgroup of or not. We also present a bound for the rank of EvFix() in case it is finitely generated.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2204.04543,
title = {Eventually fixed points of endomorphisms of virtually free groups},
author = {André Carvalho},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.04543},
year = {2022}
}
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15 pages, comments are welcome