Translation equivalent elements in free groups

DOI10.1515/JGT.2006.052MaRDI QIDQ3413968zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Donghi Lee

Publication date 5 January 2007

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604435

zbMATH Keywords

automorphismscyclic lengthsfree groupstranslation equivalent elements

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)

Abstract: Let F_n be a free group of rank n>1. Two elements g, h in F_n are said to be translation equivalent in F_n if the cyclic length of phi(g) equals the cyclic length of phi(h) for every automorphism phi of F_n. Let F(a, b) be the free group generated by {a, b} and let w(a,b) be an arbitrary word in F(a,b). We prove that w(g, h) and w(h, g) are translation equivalent in F_n whenever g, h in F_n are translation equivalent in F_n, which hereby gives an affirmative solution to problem F38b in the online version (http://www.grouptheory.info) of [1].

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