The conjecture that word measures separate automorphism orbits

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Let F\mathbb{\mathbf{F}} be a free group and let w1,w2Fw_{1},w_{2}\in\mathbb{\mathbf{F}}. For each word, consider the induced probability measure on every compact group. Word-measure orbit conjecture. If w1w_{1} and w2w_{2} induce the same measure on every compact group, then they belong to the same Aut(F)\operatorname{Aut}(\mathbb{\mathbf{F}})-orbit. The forward implication from belonging to the same automorphism orbit to having the same word measure is elementary, but the converse is presented as an open conjecture suggested by several mathematicians.

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Doron Puder, Yotam Shomroni, Danielle Ernst-West and Matan Seidel, “Stable Invariants of Words from Random Matrices”, arXiv:2311.17733 (2026).

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