Computation of endo-fixed closures in free-abelian times free groups
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Mallika Roy
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Enric Ventura
Abstract
In this paper, we explore the behaviour of the fixed subgroups of endomorphisms of free-abelian times free (FATF) groups. We exhibit an algorithm which, given a finitely generated subgroup
Funding statement: The authors acknowledge support from the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación through grant PID2021-126851NB-100 (AEI/ FEDER, UE). The first named author wants to thank the hospitality received from Universidad del País Vasco, and support through a Margarita Salas grant from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
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- Local Birkhoff decompositions for loop groups and a finiteness result
- Uniform boundedness of oscillatory singular integrals with rational phases
- On the stabilizer of the graph of linear functions over finite fields
- Global solution and blow-up of critical heat equation with nonlocal interaction
- Locally compact groups with all dense subgroups separable
- On the Kawaguchi–Silverman conjecture for birational automorphisms of irregular varieties
- On isometry groups of gradient Ricci solitons
- Extensions of a theorem of P. Hall on indexes of maximal subgroups
- A trace formula for Hecke operators on Fuchsian groups
- Quasi-hereditary algebras with all standard modules being isomorphic to submodules of projective modules
- Computation of endo-fixed closures in free-abelian times free groups
- Non-vanishing of Maass form 𝐿-functions of cubic level at the central point
- Traces of partition Eisenstein series
- Gabor System based on the unitary dual of the Heisenberg group
- Zeros of linear combinations of Dirichlet 𝐿-functions on the critical line
- Paley inequality for the Weyl transform and its applications
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Weil representations of twisted loop groups of type A n (2)
- Local Birkhoff decompositions for loop groups and a finiteness result
- Uniform boundedness of oscillatory singular integrals with rational phases
- On the stabilizer of the graph of linear functions over finite fields
- Global solution and blow-up of critical heat equation with nonlocal interaction
- Locally compact groups with all dense subgroups separable
- On the Kawaguchi–Silverman conjecture for birational automorphisms of irregular varieties
- On isometry groups of gradient Ricci solitons
- Extensions of a theorem of P. Hall on indexes of maximal subgroups
- A trace formula for Hecke operators on Fuchsian groups
- Quasi-hereditary algebras with all standard modules being isomorphic to submodules of projective modules
- Computation of endo-fixed closures in free-abelian times free groups
- Non-vanishing of Maass form 𝐿-functions of cubic level at the central point
- Traces of partition Eisenstein series
- Gabor System based on the unitary dual of the Heisenberg group
- Zeros of linear combinations of Dirichlet 𝐿-functions on the critical line
- Paley inequality for the Weyl transform and its applications
