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Word and Conjugacy Problems in Groups $G_{k+1}^{k}$

Geometric Topology 2019-07-01 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

Recently the third named author defined a 2-parametric family of groups GnkG_n^k \cite{gnk}. Those groups may be regarded as a certain generalisation of braid groups. Study of the connection between the groups GnkG_n^k and dynamical systems led to the discovery of the following fundamental principle: `If dynamical systems describing the motion of nn particles possess a nice codimension one property governed by exactly kk particles, then these dynamical systems admit a topological invariant valued in GnkG_{n}^{k}'. The GnkG_n^k groups have connections to different algebraic structures, Coxeter groups and Kirillov-Fomin algebras, to name just a few. Study of the GnkG_n^k groups led to, in particular, the construction of invariants, valued in free products of cyclic groups. In the present paper we prove that word and conjugacy problems for certain Gk+1kG_{k+1}^k groups are algorithmically solvable, and the algorithms are constructive.

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@article{arxiv.1906.04916,
  title  = {Word and Conjugacy Problems in Groups $G_{k+1}^{k}$},
  author = {Denis Fedoseev and Andrey Karpov and Vassily Manturov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.04916},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1905.08049, arXiv:1803.01195. Author note: arXiv:1905.08049 is a Survey, which describes what is done in the field, including the results of this paper; arXiv:1803.01195 is an earlier work by one of the authors, which is used as a background and source of definitions in the present paper

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