Walker's piecewise quasilinearity conjecture for scl in free products of finite cyclic groups
Walker's piecewise quasilinearity conjecture for scl in free products of finite cyclic groups
Fix a rational chain in the free group . For with , let be the image of under the natural homomorphism
Here denotes stable commutator length in the resulting free product, and a function is piecewise quasilinear in if there are some and a finite partition of such that, on each piece and after fixing the congruence class of every modulo , it is linear in the variables .
Walker's conjecture. For any fixed chain in , is piecewise quasilinear in : there are some and a finite partition of such that on each piece, fixing any congruence class of each modulo , is linear in .
The conjecture predicts the periodic behavior observed experimentally for stable commutator length in these families of free products; the source does not state a resolution, so its status remains open.
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Primary source
Lvzhou Chen, “Scl in free products”, arXiv:1611.07463 (2017).
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