Some power of an element in a Garside group is conjugate to a periodically geodesic element

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDN032zbMATH Open1171.20026OpenAlexW2094765447MaRDI QIDQ3521097FDOQ3521097

Authors Eon-Kyung Lee, Sang-Jin Lee 

Publication date 27 August 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604144

zbMATH Keywords

Garside groupsword lengthssuper summit setssimple elementsfinite-time algorithmsperiodically geodesic elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

Abstract: We show that for each element $g$ of a Garside group, there exists a positive integer $m$ such that $g^m$ is conjugate to a periodically geodesic element $h$, an element with $|h^n{|}_D=|n|cdot|h{|}_D$ for all integers $n$, where $|g{|}_D$ denotes the shortest word length of $g$ with respect to the set $D$ of simple elements. We also show that there is a finite-time algorithm that computes, given an element of a Garside group, its stable super summit set.

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