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Geometric Group Theory

GeoGT Session #6.2

Subevent of GeoGT Session #6

Heritage Hall Building 125

Times: 2026 Mar 13 from 04:05PM to 04:25PM (Central Time (US & Canada))

Conjugator length in finitely presented groups

Francis Wagner <fw294@cornell.edu>, Cornell University

Coauthors: 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.

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