Conjugacy in fibre products, distortion, and the geometry of cyclic subgroups

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contents We investigate the complexity of the conjugacy problem for fibre products in torsion-free hyperbolic groups. Let $G$ be a torsion-free hyperbolic group and let $P<G\times G$ be the fibre product associated to an epimorphism $G\twoheadrightarrow Q$. We establish inequalities that relate the conjugator length function of $P$ to the geometry of cyclic subgroups in $Q$, the Dehn function of $Q$, the {\em rel-cyclics Dehn function} of $Q$, and the distortion of $P$ in $G\times G$. These estimates provide tools for extending the library of (large) functions that are known to arise as the conjugator length functions of finitely generated and finitely presented groups.
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spellingShingle Conjugacy in fibre products, distortion, and the geometry of cyclic subgroups
Bridson, Martin R
Group Theory
20F67, 20F10, 20F65
We investigate the complexity of the conjugacy problem for fibre products in torsion-free hyperbolic groups. Let $G$ be a torsion-free hyperbolic group and let $P<G\times G$ be the fibre product associated to an epimorphism $G\twoheadrightarrow Q$. We establish inequalities that relate the conjugator length function of $P$ to the geometry of cyclic subgroups in $Q$, the Dehn function of $Q$, the {\em rel-cyclics Dehn function} of $Q$, and the distortion of $P$ in $G\times G$. These estimates provide tools for extending the library of (large) functions that are known to arise as the conjugator length functions of finitely generated and finitely presented groups.
title Conjugacy in fibre products, distortion, and the geometry of cyclic subgroups
topic Group Theory
20F67, 20F10, 20F65
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17598