Twisted conjugacy classes in unitriangular groups

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2018-0127MaRDI QIDQ667022zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Timur Nasybullov

Publication date 12 March 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05160

zbMATH Keywords

Reidemeister numbertwisted conjugacy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40)

Abstract: Let $R$ be an integral domain of zero characteristic. In this note we study the Reidemeister spectrum of the group ${mUT}_n(R)$ of unitriangular matrices over $R$. We prove that if $R^{+}$ is finitely generated and $n>2|R^{\ast }|$, then ${mUT}_n(R)$ possesses the $R_{infty}$-property, i. e. the Reidemeister spectrum of ${mUT}_n(R)$ contains only $infty$, however, if $nleq|R^{\ast }|$, then the Reidemeister spectrum of ${mUT}_n(R)$ has nonempty intersection with $mathbbN$. If $R$ is a field, then we prove that the Reidemeister spectrum of ${mUT}_n(R)$ coincides with $1,infty$, i. e. in this case ${mUT}_n(R)$ does not possess the $R_{infty}$-property.

Review text

If \(G\) is a group and \(\phi \in \Aut(G)\), the \(\phi\)-conjugacy class of an element \(x\) of \(G\) is the set \(\{g^{-1}xg^{\phi} : g \in G \}\). The Reidemeister number \(R(\phi)\)) is the number of \(\phi\)-conjugacy classes in \(G\) and the Reidemeister spectrum of \(G\) is the subset \(\{R(\phi) : \phi \in \Aut(G) \}\) of \(\mathbb{N} \cup \{\infty\}\). A group G has the \(R_{\infty}\)-property if \(R(\phi)\) is infinite for every automrphism \(\phi\) of \(G\). The problem of determining which classes of groups have the \(R_{\infty}\)-property was initiated by \textit{A. Fel'shtyn} and \textit{R. Hill} [\(K\)-Theory 8, No. 4, 367--393 (1994; Zbl 0814.58033)]. The motivation came from the Nielsen theory. In the present paper, the author proves that for an integral domain \(R\) of characteristic \(0\), where the additive group of \(R\) is finitely generated, then the \(R_{\infty}\)-property holds for the unitriangular group \(UT_n(R)\) when \(n> 2|R^{\ast}|\) and does not hold when \(n \leq |R^{\ast}|\). This leaves the cases \(|R^{\ast}| < n \leq 2 |R^{\ast}|\) open. Further, he shows that \(UT_n(K)\) for a field \(K\) and \(n \geq 3\) has Reidemeister spectrum \(\{1, \infty\}\); the automorphisms of the additive group of \(K\) given by \(x \mapsto ax\) where \(a \neq 0,1\) gives diagonal automorphisms \(\phi\) on \(UT_n(R)\) which have \(R_{\phi} = \{1\}.\) A related result was obtained by \textit{A. Fel'shtyn} and \textit{D. L. Gonçalves} [Int. J. Algebra Comput. 21, No. 3, 505--520 (2011; Zbl 1225.20030)], for the groups in this title.

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