Twisted conjugacy classes in residually finite groups

Authors Alexander Felshtyn, E. V. Troitskij

Publication date 14 April 2012

Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) Induced representations for locally compact groups (22D30) Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25) Fixed-point theorems (47H10) Fixed-point and coincidence theorems (topological aspects) (54H25) (L^1)-algebras on groups, semigroups, etc. (43A20) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms on nonabelian groups and on semigroups, etc. (43A30) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20) Representation theory of groups (20Cxx) Selfadjoint operator algebras ((C^*)-algebras, von Neumann ((W^*)-) algebras, etc.) (46Lxx)

Abstract: We prove for residually finite groups the following long standing conjecture: the number of twisted conjugacy classes of an automorphism of a finitely generated group is equal (if it is finite) to the number of finite dimensional irreducible unitary representations being invariant for the dual of this automorphism. Also, we prove that any finitely generated residually finite non-amenable group has the R-infinity property (any automorphism has infinitely many twisted conjugacy classes). This gives a lot of new examples and covers many known classes of such groups.

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