Twisted conjugacy classes in unitriangular groups (Q667022)

If \(G\) is a group and \(\phi \in \Aut(G)\), the \(\phi\)-conjugacy class of an element \(x\) of \(G\) is the set \(\{g^{-1}xg^{\phi} : g \in G \}\). The Reidemeister number \(R(\phi)\)) is the number of \(\phi\)-conjugacy classes in \(G\) and the Reidemeister spectrum of \(G\) is the subset \(\{R(\phi) : \phi \in \Aut(G) \}\) of \(\mathbb{N} \cup \{\infty\}\). A group G has the \(R_{\infty}\)-property if \(R(\phi)\) is infinite for every automrphism \(\phi\) of \(G\). The problem of determining which classes of groups have the \(R_{\infty}\)-property was initiated by \textit{A. Fel'shtyn} and \textit{R. Hill} [\(K\)-Theory 8, No. 4, 367--393 (1994; Zbl 0814.58033)]. The motivation came from the Nielsen theory. In the present paper, the author proves that for an integral domain \(R\) of characteristic \(0\), where the additive group of \(R\) is finitely generated, then the \(R_{\infty}\)-property holds for the unitriangular group \(UT_n(R)\) when \(n> 2|R^{\ast}|\) and does not hold when \(n \leq |R^{\ast}|\). This leaves the cases \(|R^{\ast}| < n \leq 2 |R^{\ast}|\) open. Further, he shows that \(UT_n(K)\) for a field \(K\) and \(n \geq 3\) has Reidemeister spectrum \(\{1, \infty\}\); the automorphisms of the additive group of \(K\) given by \(x \mapsto ax\) where \(a \neq 0,1\) gives diagonal automorphisms \(\phi\) on \(UT_n(R)\) which have \(R_{\phi} = \{1\}.\) A related result was obtained by \textit{A. Fel'shtyn} and \textit{D. L. Gonçalves} [Int. J. Algebra Comput. 21, No. 3, 505--520 (2011; Zbl 1225.20030)], for the groups in this title.