An Agol cycle is a complete invariant of the conjugacy class pseudo-Anosov mapping class. We study necessary and sufficient conditions for equivalent cycles 3-braids.

It is well known that the dynamics and conjugacy class of a complex Möbius transformation can be determined from a simple rational function of the coefficients of the transformation. We study the group of quaternionic Möbius transformations and identify simple rational functions of the coefficients of the transformations that determine dynamics and conjugacy.

The Weyl groups are important for Lie algebras. Lie algebras arise in the study of Lie groups, coming from symmetries of differential equations, and of differentiable manifolds. The Weyl groups have been used to classify Lie algebras up to isomorphism. The Weyl group associated to a Lie algebra of type Bn and the group of graph automorphisms of the n-cube Aut(Qn) are known to be isomorphic to Z...

The convolution of indicators of two conjugacy classes on the symmetric group Sq is usually a complicated linear combination of indicators of many conjugacy classes. Similarly, a product of the moments of the Jucys–Murphy element involves many conjugacy classes with complicated coefficients. In this article we consider a combinatorial setup which allows us to manipulate such products easily: to...

Given an automorphism of a free group Fn, we consider the following invariants: e is the number of exponential strata (an upper bound for the number of different exponential growth rates of conjugacy classes); d is the maximal degree of polynomial growth of conjugacy classes; R is the rank of the fixed subgroup. We determine precisely which triples (e, d, R) may be realized by an automorphism o...

Let G be a finite group and H a normal subgroup such that G/H is cyclic. Given a conjugacy class g of G we define its centralizing subgroup to be HCG(g). Let K be such that H ≤ K ≤ G. We show that the G-conjugacy classes contained in K whose centralizing subgroup is K, are equally distributed between the cosets of H in K. The proof of this result is entirely elementary. As an application we fin...

The convolution of indicators of two conjugacy classes on the symmetric group Sq is usually a complicated linear combination of indicators of many conjugacy classes. Similarly, a product of the moments of the Jucys–Murphy element involves many conjugacy classes with complicated coefficients. In this article we consider a combinatorial setup which allows us to manipulate such products easily: to...

We study topological properties of conjugacy classes in Polish groups, with emphasis on automorphism groups of homogeneous countable structures. We first consider the existence of dense conjugacy classes (the topological Rokhlin property). We then characterize when an automorphism group admits a comeager conjugacy class (answering a question of Truss) and apply this to show that the homeomorphi...

Let G be a quasi-split connected reductive group over a local eld of characteristic 0, and x a regular nilpotent element in the Lie algebra g of G. A theorem of Kostant then provides a canonical conjugacy class within each stable conjugacy class of regular semisimple elements in g. Normalized transfer factors take the value 1 on these canonical conjugacy classes. 1. Introduction Let k 0 be a lo...