The word-measure orbit conjecture

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Let FrF_r be the free group on rr generators. For w,wFrw,w'\in F_r and a compact group GG, let μw,G\mu_{w,G} be the push-forward of Haar measure on GrG^r under the word map determined by ww. The measure μw,G\mu_{w,G} depends only on the Aut(Fr)\operatorname{Aut}(F_r)-orbit of ww. Word-measure orbit conjecture. If

μw,G=μw,G\mu_{w,G}=\mu_{w',G}

for every compact group GG, then ww and ww' lie in the same Aut(Fr)\operatorname{Aut}(F_r)-orbit. This is a well-known open converse problem in the theory of word measures and word maps.

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Primary source

Yaron Brodsky, “Word Measures on Unitary Groups: Improved Bounds for Small Representations”, arXiv:2208.11957 (2022).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1908.03801.

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