Conjugator length

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Tim Riley (Cornell University)
• Friday 15 November 2019, 13:45-14:45
• CMS, MR13.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact .

The conjugator length function of a finitely generated group G maps a natural number n to the minimal N such that if u and v are words representing conjugate elements of G with the sum of their lengths at most n, then there is a word w of length at most N such that uw=wv in G. I will explore why this function is important, will describe some recent results with Martin Bridson and Andrew Sale on how it can behave, and will highlight some of the many open questions about conjugator length.

This talk is part of the Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• All CMS events
• CMS Events
• CMS, MR13
• DPMMS info aggregator
• Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar
• Hanchen DaDaDash
• Interested Talks
• bld31

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.