On the Reidemeister spectrum of an Abelian group

Brendan Goldsmith, Fatemeh Karimi, Noel White

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    Abstract

    The Reidemeister number of an automorphism Φ of an Abelian group G is calculated by determining the cardinality of the quotient group G/(Φ - 1G)(G), and the Reidemeister spectrum of G is precisely the set of Reidemeister numbers of the automorphisms of G. In this work we determine the full spectrum of several types of group, paying particular attention to groups of torsion-free rank 1 and to direct sums and products. We show how to make use of strong realization results for Abelian groups to exhibit many groups where the Reidemeister number is infinite for all automorphisms; such groups then possess the so-called R∞-property.We also answer a query of Dekimpe and Gonçalves by exhibiting an Abelian 2-group which has the R∞-property.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)199-214
    Number of pages16
    JournalForum Mathematicum
    Volume31
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2019

    Keywords

    • Reidemeister number
    • Reidemeister spectrum
    • R∞-property
    • rank one group
    • type

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