The R_ property for nilpotent quotients of surface groups

DOI10.1112/TLMS/TLW002MaRDI QIDQ2833180zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Karel Dekimpe, Daciberg Lima Gonçalves

Publication date 17 November 2016

Published in Transactions of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07974

zbMATH Keywords

\(R_\infty\)-nilpotency degree\(R_\infty\)-property\(R_\infty\)-solvability degreefundamental group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Derived series, central series, and generalizations for groups (20F14) Solvable groups, supersolvable groups (20F16) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: It is well known that when $G$ is the fundamental group of a closed surface of negative Euler characteristic, it has the $R_{infty}$ property. In this work we compute the least integer $c$, {it called the $R_{infty}$-nilpotency degree of $G$}, such that the group $G/gamm{a}_{c+1}(G)$ has the $R_{infty}$ property, where $gamm{a}_r(G)$ is the $r$-th term of the lower central series of $G$. We show that $c=4$ for $G$ the fundamental group of any orientable closed surface $S_g$ of genus $g>1$. For the fundamental group of the non-orientable surface $N_g$ (the connected sum of $g$ projective planes) this number is $2(g-1)$ (when $g>2$). A similar concept is introduced using the derived series $G^{(r)}$ of a group $G$. Namely {it the $R_{infty}$-solvability degree of $G$}, which is the least integer $c$ such that the group $G/G^{(c)}$ has the $R_{infty}$ property. We show that the fundamental group of an orientable closed surface $S_g$ has $R_{infty}$-solvability degree $2$.

Review text

If \(\varphi\) is an endomorphism of a group \(G\), an equivalence relation \(\sim\) may be defined in \(G\) by putting \(x\sim y\) if and only if there exists \(z\in G\) such that \(x=zy\varphi(z)^{-1}\). The equivalence classes determined by \(\sim\) are called \textit{twisted conjugacy classes} (or \textit{Reidemeister classes}), and the number of these classes is denoted by \(R(\varphi)\). A group \(G\) is said to have the \textit{\(R_\infty\)-property} if \(R(\varphi)=\infty\) for each automorphism \(\varphi\) of \(G\). For instance, it is known that all non-elementary Gromov hyperbolic groups (and so in particular all free non-abelian groups of finite rank) have the \(R_\infty\)-property.NEWLINENEWLINEIf \(G\) is a group with the \(R_\infty\)-property, the \textit{\(R_\infty\)-nilpotency degree} of \(G\) is the smallest positive integer \(c\) such that \(G/\gamma_{c+1}(G)\) has the \(R_\infty\)-property, if such a number exists, and \(\infty\) otherwise. The \textit{\(R_\infty\)-solvability degree} of \(G\) is defined in a similar way, replacing the terms of the lower central series by those of the derived series of \(G\).NEWLINENEWLINEIn the paper under review, the authors study the \(R_\infty\)-nilpotency and the \(R_\infty\)-solvability degrees of the fundamental group of a closed surface.

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