Singleton doubly-twisted conjugacy classes in free groups
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We give a simple method which can be used to show that an element of a free group is the only member of its doubly-twisted conjugacy class with respect to a pair of homomorphisms having a natural remnant property. We also show that most pairs of homomorphisms have infinitely many such singleton classes.
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