Property \(R_\infty\) for some spherical and affine Artin-Tits groups (Q2093226)

The notion of twisted conjugacy classes arises in Nielsen fixed point theory and appears naturally in Selberg theory. Indeed, for a group \(G\) and an automorphism \(\varphi\) of it, two elements \(g,h\in G\) are said to be \textit{\(\varphi\)-twisted conjugate} if and only if there is \(x\in G\) such that \(h=xg\varphi(x)^{-1}\). The group \(G\) is said to have the \textit{property \(R_\infty\)} if the number of twisted conjugacy classes is infinity for all automorphism \(\varphi\). In the present paper, the authors give a short proof of this property for the Artin-Tits groups of spherical type: \(A_n\), \(B_n\), \(D_4\), \(I_2(m)\) with \(m\geq3\), also for their pure subgroups, and for the Artin-Tits groups of affine types: \(\tilde{A}_{n-1}\) and \(\tilde{C}_{n-1}\). In particular, they provide an alternative proof of the fact that pure braid groups have the property \(R_{\infty}\), which was recently proved by \textit{K. Dekimpe} et al. [Monatsh. Math. 195, No. 1, 15--33 (2021; Zbl 07335299)].