The Geometry of Twisted Conjugacy Classes in Wreath Products
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چکیده
We give a geometric proof based on recent work of Eskin, Fisher and Whyte that the lamplighter group Ln has infinitely many twisted conjugacy classes for any automorphism φ only when n is divisible by 2 or 3, originally proved by Gonçalves and Wong. We determine when the wreath product G o Z has this same property for several classes of finite groups G, including symmetric groups and some nilpotent groups.
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