Twisted Burnside theorem for type II₁ groups: an example.

DOI10.4310/MRL.2006.V13.N5.A4MaRDI QIDQ862050zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alexander Felshtyn, E. V. Troitskij, A. M. Vershik

Publication date 5 February 2007

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606161

zbMATH Keywords

automorphismsdiscrete groupsirreducible unitary representationsnumbers of conjugacy classesReidemeister numberstwisted conjugacy classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Geometric group theory (20F65) Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the following conjecture of Fel'shtyn and Hill, which is a generalization of the classical Burnside theorem: Let G be a countable discrete group, f its automorphism, R(f) the number of f-conjugacy classes (Reidemeister number), S(f):=# Fix (f^) the number of f-invariant equivalence classes of irreducible unitary representations. If one of R(f) and S(f) is finite, then it is equal to the other. This conjecture plays a very important role in the theory of twisted conjugacy classes having a long history and has very serious consequences in Dynamics, while its proof needs rather fine results from Functional and Non-commutative Harmonic Analysis. It was proved for finitely generated groups of type I in a previous paper. In the present paper this conjecture is disproved for non-type I groups. More precisely, an example of a group and its automorphism is constructed such that the number of fixed irreducible representations is greater than the Reidemeister number. But the number of fixed finite-dimensional representations (i.e. the number of invariant finite-dimensional characters) in this example coincides with the Reidemeister number.

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