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SUMMARY:Conjugator length - Tim Riley (Cornell University)
DTSTART:20191115T134500Z
DTEND:20191115T144500Z
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DESCRIPTION: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 r
 epresenting 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 wi
 ll explore why this function is important\, will describe some recent resu
 lts with Martin Bridson and Andrew Sale on how it can behave\, and will hi
 ghlight some of the many open questions about conjugator length. 
LOCATION:CMS\, MR13
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