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  5. 2026

Geometric Group Theory

Icon: calendar GeoGT Session #6.2 | 2026 Mar 13 from 04:05PM to 04:25PM (Central Time (US & Canada)) | Heritage Hall Building 125

Subevent of GeoGT Session #6

‟Conjugator length in finitely presented groups” by Francis Wagner, with Conan Gillis

Abstract:

The conjugator length function of a finitely generated group is the function f so that f(n) is the minimal upper bound on the length of a word realizing the conjugacy of two words of length at most n. This function provides a measure for the complexity of a direct approach to the Conjugacy Problem for the finitely generated group. I will discuss what functions can be realized as the conjugator length function of a finitely presented group and the connection of this function with other important invariants of finitely presented groups.