Conjugator lengths in hierarchically hyperbolic groups

DOI10.4171/GGD/722MaRDI QIDQ6062647zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carolyn R. Abbott, Jason A. Behrstock

Publication date 6 November 2023

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09604

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy problemconjugatorshierarchically hyperbolic grouphyperbolic space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

Abstract: In this paper we establish upper bounds on the length of the shortest conjugator between pairs of elements in a wide class of groups. We obtain a general result which applies to all hierarchically hyperbolic groups: a class which includes mapping class groups, right angled Artin groups, Burger-Mozes-type groups, most 3-manifold groups, and many others. One case of our result in this setting is a linear bound on the length of the shortest conjugator for any pair of conjugate Morse elements. In a special case, namely, for virtually compact special cubical groups, we can prove a sharper result by obtaining a linear bound on the length of the shortest conjugator between any pair of infinite order elements. In a more general case, that of acylindrically hyperbolic groups, we establish an upper bound on the length of shortest conjugators, but in this generality the bound may not be linear.

Review text

Summary: In this paper, we establish upper bounds on the length of the shortest conjugator between pairs of infinite order elements in a wide class of groups. We obtain a general result which applies to all hierarchically hyperbolic groups, a class which includes mapping class groups, right-angled Artin groups, Burger-Mozes-type groups, most 3-manifold groups, and many others. In this setting, we establish a linear bound on the length of the shortest conjugator for any pair of conjugate Morse elements. For a subclass of these groups, including, in particular, all virtually compact special groups, we prove a sharper result by obtaining a linear bound on the length of the shortest conjugator between a suitable power of any pair of conjugate infinite order elements.

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