Twisted conjugacy in free groups and Makanin's question.

zbMATH Open1086.20020arXivmath/0401349MaRDI QIDQ2569313FDOQ2569313

Authors: Valeriy G. Bardakov, Andrei Vesnin, Leonid A. Bokut' 

Publication date: 18 October 2005

Published in: Southeast Asian Bulletin of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the following question of G. Makanin from ``Kourovka notebook: does there exist an algorithm to determine is for an arbitrary pair of words $U$ and $V$ of a free group $F_n$ and an arbitrary automorphism $phiinAut(F_n)$ the equation $phi(X)U=VX$ solvable in $F_n$? We give the affirmative answer in the case when an automorphism is virtually inner, i.e. some its non-zero power is an inner automorphism of $F_n$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0401349

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zbMATH Keywords

automorphismsconjugacy problemfree groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

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