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Power-conjugate equations in symmetric groups

Combinatorics 2023-10-03 v7 Group Theory

Abstract

We investigate the solutions of the conjugate equation aya^(-1)=y^e in the symmetric group S_{n}. Here a is a fixed (constant), e is an integer exponent and y is a single unknown permutation (in S_{n}). It turns out that the existence of a non-trivial solution y heavily depends on e and the type of a.

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@article{arxiv.2104.03593,
  title  = {Power-conjugate equations in symmetric groups},
  author = {Szilvia Homolya and Jenő Szigeti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.03593},
  year   = {2023}
}
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