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We prove a dichotomy between rationality and a natural boundary for the analytic behavior of the Reidemeister zeta function for automorphisms of non-finitely generated torsion abelian groups and for endomorphisms of groups $\mathbb Z_p^d,$ where $\mathbb Z_p$ the group of p-adic integers. As a consequence, we obtain a dichotomy for the Reidemeister zeta function of a continuous map of a topological space with fundamental group that is non-finitely generated torsion abelian group. We also prove the rationality of the coincidence Reidemeister zeta function for tame endomorphisms pairs of finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups, based on a weak commutativity condition., Comment: 25 pages

We consider coincidence Reidemeister zeta functions for tame endomorphism pairs of nilpotent groups of finite rank, shedding new light on the subject by means of profinite completion techniques. In particular, we provide a closed formula for coincidence Reidemeister numbers for iterations of endomorphism pairs of torsion-free nilpotent groups of finite rank, based on a weak commutativity condition, which derives from simultaneous triangularisability on abelian sections. Furthermore, we present results in support of a P\'olya-Carlson dichotomy between rationality and a natural boundary for the analytic behaviour of the zeta functions in question., Comment: 13 pages, small improvements of the exposition

In this paper we continue to study the Reidemeister zeta function. We prove P\'olya -- Carlson dichotomy between rationality and a natural boundary for analytic behavior of the Reidemeister zeta function for a large class of automorphisms of Abelian groups. We also study dynamical representation theory zeta functions counting numbers of fixed irreducible representations for iterations of an endomorphism. The rationality and functional equation for these zeta functions are proven for several classes of groups. We find a connection between these zeta functions and the Reidemeister torsions of the corresponding mapping tori. We also establish the connection between the Reidemeister zeta function and dynamical representation theory zeta functions under restriction of endomorphism to a subgroup and to a quotient group., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:chao-dyn/9603017

We introduce new zeta functions related to an endomorphism $\phi$ of a discrete group $\Gamma$. They are of two types: counting numbers of fixed ($\rho\sim \rho\circ\phi^n$) irreducible representations for iterations of $\phi$ from an appropriate dual space of $\Gamma$ and counting Reidemeister numbers $R(\phi^n)$ of different compactifications. Many properties of these functions and their coefficients are obtained. In many cases it is proved that these zeta functions coincide. The Gauss congruences are proved. Useful asymptotic formulas for the zeta functions are found. Rationality is proved for some examples, which give also the first counterexamples simultaneously for TBFT ($R(\phi)$=the number of fixed irreducible unitary representations) and TBFT$_f$ ($R(\phi)$=the number of fixed irreducible unitary finite-dimensional representations) for an automorphism $\phi$ with $R(\phi)<\infty$., Comment: 15 pages

Let $R(\phi)$ be the number of $\phi$-conjugacy (or Reidemeister) classes of an endomorphism $\phi$ of a group $G$. We prove for several classes of groups (including polycyclic) that the number $R(\phi)$ is equal to the number of fixed points of the induced map of an appropriate subspace of the unitary dual space $\widehat G$, when $R(\phi)<\infty$. Applying the result to iterations of $\phi$ we obtain Gauss congruences for Reidemeister numbers. In contrast with the case of automorphisms, studied previously, we have a plenty of examples having the above finiteness condition, even among groups with $R_\infty$ property., Comment: 11 pages, v.2: small corrections, submitted

In the paper we study twisted conjugacy classes and isogredience classes for automorphisms of reductive linear algebraic groups. We show that reductive linear algebraic groups over some fields of zero characteristic possess the $R_\infty$ and $S_\infty$ properties., Comment: 20 pages

We develop the Reidemeister theory of iterations of a group endomorphism $\varphi$ and study the asymptotic behavior of the sequence of the Reidemeister numbers of iterations $\{R(\varphi^k)\}$, the essential periodic $[\varphi]$-orbits and the heights of $\varphi$ on poly-Bieberbach groups., Comment: 27 pages v.2 : Theorems 4.2, 4.5, 7.1, 9.2 are corrected; made a few other minor changes in chapter 7; new references are added. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1403.7631

We prove that the growth rate of an endomorphism of a finitely generated nilpotent group equals to the growth rate of induced endomorphism on its abelinization, generalizing the corresponding result for an automorphism in [14]. We also study growth rates of endomorphisms for specific solvable groups, lattices of Sol, providing a counterexample to a known result in [5] and proving that the growth rate is an algebraic number., Comment: Correct a typo

We study the asymptotic behavior of the sequence of the Nielsen numbers $\{N(f^k)\}$, the essential periodic orbits of $f$ and the homotopy minimal periods of $f$ by using the Nielsen theory of maps $f$ on infra-solvmanifolds of type $R$. We give a linear lower bound for the number of essential periodic orbits of such a map, which sharpens well-known results of Shub and Sullivan for periodic points and of Babenko and Bogatyi for periodic orbits. We also verify that a constant multiple of infinitely many prime numbers occur as homotopy minimal periods of such a map., Comment: 25 pages v.2 : Theorem 4.1 is corrected; made a few other minor changes in chapter 6

We prove the rationality, the functional equations and calculate the radii of convergence of the Nielsen and the Reidemeister zeta functions of continuous maps on infra-solvmanifolds of type $\R$. We find a connection between the Reidemeister and Nielsen zeta functions and the Reidemeister torsions of the corresponding mapping tori. We show that if the Reidemeister zeta function is defined for a homeomorphism on an infra-solvmanifold of type $\R$, then this manifold is an infra-nilmanifold. We also prove that a map on an infra-solvmanifold of type $\R$ induced by an affine map minimizes the topological entropy in its homotopy class and it has a rational Artin-Mazur zeta function. Finally we prove the Gauss congruences for the Reidemeister and Nielsen numbers of any map on an infra-solvmanifolds of type $\R$ whenever all the Reidemeister numbers of iterates of the map are finite. Our main technical tool is the averaging formulas for the Lefschetz, the Nielsen and the Reidemeister numbers on infra-solvmanifolds of type $\R$., Comment: 49 pages. Added new results. The title and an abstract have been changed. Added new references

We prove for residually finite groups the following long standing conjecture: the number of twisted conjugacy classes of an automorphism of a finitely generated group is equal (if it is finite) to the number of finite dimensional irreducible unitary representations being invariant for the dual of this automorphism. Also, we prove that any finitely generated residually finite non-amenable group has the R-infinity property (any automorphism has infinitely many twisted conjugacy classes). This gives a lot of new examples and covers many known classes of such groups., Comment: 20 pages, no figures, v2: typos corrected, references added

The main theme of this paper is to study for a symplectomorphism of a compact surface, the asymptotic invariant which is defined to be the growth rate of the sequence of the total dimensions of symplectic Floer homologies of the iterates of the symplectomorphism. We prove that the asymptotic invariant coincides with asymptotic Nielsen number and with asymptotic absolute Lefschetz number. We also show that the asymptotic invariant coincides with the largest dilatation of the pseudo-Anosov components of the symplectomorphism and its logarithm coincides with the topological entropy. This implies that symplectic zeta function has a positive radius of convergence.This also establishes a connection between Floer homology and geometry of 3-manifolds., Comment: 24 pages, Section 3.3 is added where a connection between symplectic Floer homology and geometry of 3-manifolds is established. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:math/0211032 and arXiv:0807.0045

In this note we study the Reidemeister spectrum for metabelian groups of the form ${\mathbb Q}^n\rtimes \mathbb Z$ and ${\mathbb Z[1/p]}^n\rtimes \mathbb Z$. Particular attention is given to the $R_{\infty}$ property of a subfamily of these groups. We also define a Nielsen spectrum of a space and discuss some examples., Comment: 21 pages

This is a (mostly expository) paper on Reidemeister classes, twisted Burnside-Frobenius theory, congruences, R-infinity property and all that. It was written in 2005 and published in 2008. We post it as it was, only the bibliography data is updated. For some of the recent progress see e.g. arXiv:0903.4533, arXiv:0903.3455, arXiv:0802.2937, arXiv:0712.2601, arXiv:0704.3411, arXiv:math/0703744, arXiv:math/0606725, arXiv:math/0606764, arXiv:0805.1371 and references there.

The purpose of this mostly expository paper is to discuss a connection between Nielsen fixed point theory and symplectic Floer homology theory for symplectomorphisms of surface and a calculation of Seidel's symplectic Floer homology for different mapping classes. We also describe symplectic zeta functions and asympltotic symplectic invariant. A generalisation of the Poincare- Birkhoff fixed point theorem and Arnold conjecture is proposed., Comment: 25 pages

Let $G$ be a finitely generated polyfree group. If $G$ has nonzero Euler characteristic then we show that $Aut(G)$ has a finite index subgroup in which every automorphism has infinite Reidemeister number. For certain $G$ of length 2, we show that the number of Reidemeister classes of every automorphism is infinite., Comment: 11 pages

The purpose of this expository paper is to present new directions in the classical Nielsen-Reidemeister fixed point theory. We describe twisted Burnside-Frobenius theorem, groups with $R_\infty$ \emph{property} and a connection between Nielsen fixed point theory and symplectic Floer homology., Comment: 50 pages, survey

We prove that the symplectic group $Sp(2n,\mathbb Z)$ and the mapping class group $Mod_{S}$ of a compact surface $S$ satisfy the $R_{\infty}$ property. We also show that $B_n(S)$, the full braid group on $n$-strings of a surface $S$, satisfies the $R_{\infty}$ property in the cases where $S$ is either the compact disk $D$, or the sphere $S^2$. This means that for any automorphism $\phi$ of $G$, where $G$ is one of the above groups, the number of twisted $\phi$-conjugacy classes is infinite., Comment: 21 pages, with Appendix

In this short article, we prove that any automorphism of the R. Thompson's group $F$ has infinitely many twisted conjugacy classes. The result follows from the work of Matthew Brin, together with a standard facts on R. Thompson's group $F$, and elementary properties of the Reidemeister numbers., Comment: 10 pages

It is proved for Abelian groups that the Reidemeister coincidence number of two endomorphisms $\phi$ and $\psi$ is equal to the number of coincidence points of $\wh\phi$ and $\wh\psi$ on the unitary dual, if the Reidemeister number is finite. An affirmative answer to the bitwisted Dehn conjugacy problem for almost polycyclic groups is obtained. Finally we explain why the Reidemeister numbers are always infinite for injective endomorphisms of Baumslag-Solitar groups., Comment: 15 pages, v.3

We show that the Nielsen number of a map is a knot invariant via representation variety, Comment: 6 pages, accepted in Banach Center Publications

We study the notion of twisted conjugacy separability (essentially introduced in our previous paper for a proof of twisted version of Burnside-Frobenius theorem) and some related properties. We give examples of groups with and without this property and study its behavior under some extensions. An affirmative answer to the twisted Dehn conjugacy problem for polycyclic-by-finite group is obtained. Some problems for the further study are indicated., Comment: v3: Theorem 9.1 corrected, Section 9 rewritten. v2: Sect.9 about residually finite groups is added, giving an affirmative answer to Quest.4 of Sect.8. Some refinements on the twisted Dehn conjugacy problem are added in Sect.7. Related changes are made, mostly in Introduction

We prove for a wide class of saturated weakly branch group (including the (first) Grigorchuk group and the Gupta-Sidki group) that the Reidemeister number of any automorphism is infinite., Comment: May be problems with PDF caused by pictures. Better to use PS

For a wide class of groups including polycyclic and finitely generated polynomial growth groups it is proved that the Reidemeister number of an automorphism f is equal to the number of finite-dimensional fixed points of the induced map f^ on the unitary dual, if one of these numbers is finite. This theorem is a natural generalization of the classical Burnside-Frobenius theorem to infinite groups. This theorem also has important consequences in topological dynamics and in some sense is a reply to a remark of J.-P. Serre. The main technical results proved in the paper yield a tool for a further progress., Comment: 17 pages, no figures, v2: some small improvements using referee's suggestions

The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the following conjecture of Fel'shtyn and Hill, which is a generalization of the classical Burnside theorem: Let G be a countable discrete group, f its automorphism, R(f) the number of f-conjugacy classes (Reidemeister number), S(f):=# Fix (f^) the number of f-invariant equivalence classes of irreducible unitary representations. If one of R(f) and S(f) is finite, then it is equal to the other. This conjecture plays a very important role in the theory of twisted conjugacy classes having a long history and has very serious consequences in Dynamics, while its proof needs rather fine results from Functional and Non-commutative Harmonic Analysis. It was proved for finitely generated groups of type I in a previous paper. In the present paper this conjecture is disproved for non-type I groups. More precisely, an example of a group and its automorphism is constructed such that the number of fixed irreducible representations is greater than the Reidemeister number. But the number of fixed finite-dimensional representations (i.e. the number of invariant finite-dimensional characters) in this example coincides with the Reidemeister number., Comment: 11 pages, no figures, accepted in Math. Res. Lett

The purpose of the present paper is to prove for finitely generated groups of type I the following conjecture of A.Fel'shtyn and R.Hill, which is a generalization of the classical Burnside theorem. Let G be a countable discrete group, f one of its automorphisms, R(f) the number of f-conjugacy classes, and S(f)=# Fix (f^) the number of f-invariant equivalence classes of irreducible unitary representations. If one of R(f) and S(f) is finite, then it is equal to the other. This conjecture plays an important role in the theory of twisted conjugacy classes and has very important consequences in Dynamics, while its proof needs rather sophisticated results from Functional and Non-commutative Harmonic Analysis. We begin a discussion of the general case (which needs another definition of the dual object). It will be the subject of a forthcoming paper. Some applications and examples are presented., Comment: 14 pages, no figures

Let $\phi:G \to G$ be a group endomorphism where $G$ is a finitely generated group of exponential growth, and denote by $R(\phi)$ the number of twisted $\phi$-conjugacy classes. Fel'shtyn and Hill \cite{fel-hill} conjectured that if $\phi$ is injective, then $R(\phi)$ is infinite. This conjecture is true for automorphisms of non-elementary Gromov hyperbolic groups, see \cite{ll} and \cite {fel:1}. It was showed in \cite {gw:2} that the conjecture does not hold in general. Nevertheless in this paper, we show that the conjecture holds for the Baumslag-Solitar groups $B(m,n)$, where either $|m|$ or $|n|$ is greater than 1 and $|m|\ne |n|$. We also show that in the cases where $|m|=|n|>1$ or $mn=-1$ the conjecture is true for automorphisms. In addition, we derive few results about the coincidence Reidemeister number., Comment: 20 pages, new sections 6 and 7 are added

We describe a connection between symplectic Floer homology for symplectomorphisms of surface and Nielsen fixed point theory. A new zeta functions and asymptotic invariant of symplectic origin are defined. We show that special values of symplectic zeta functions are Reidemeister torsions., Comment: 18 pages

We show that the number of twisted conjugacy classes is infinite for any automorphism of non-elementary, Gromov hyperbolic group . An analog of Selberg theory for twisted conjugacy classes is proposed., Comment: 10 pages, Latex

We prove that the Nielsen zeta function is a rational function or a radical of a rational function for orientation preserving homeomorphisms on closed orientable 3-dimensional manifolds which are special Haken or Seifert manifolds. In the case of pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism of surface we compute an asymptotic for the number of twisted conjugacy classes or for the number of Nielsen fixed point classes whose norm is at most $x$., Comment: 15 pages, Latex, section 2 revised

In this paper we compute the Reidemeister torsion of a isoenergetic surface for the integrable Hamiltonian system on the four-dimensional symplectic manifold. We use the spectral sequence defined by the filtration and following Witten-Floer ideas we bring into play the orbits connecting the critical submanifolds., Comment: 18 pages, amstex, 47 KB, no figures

In this paper we prove trace formulae for the Reidemeister number of a group endomorphism. This result implies the rationality of the Reidemeister zeta function in the following cases: the group is a direct product of a finite group and a finitely generated Abelian group; the group is finitely generated, nilpotent and torsion free. We continue to study analytical properties of the Nielsen zeta function. We connect the Reidemeister zeta function of an endomorphism of a direct product of a finite group and a finitely generated free Abelian group with the Lefschetz zeta function of the induced map on the unitary dual of the group. As a consequence we obtain a relation between a special value of the Reidemeister zeta function and a certain Reidemeister torsion. We also prove congruences for Reidemeister numbers of iterates of an endomorphism of a direct product of a finite group and a finitely generated free Abelian group which are the same as those found by Dold for Lefschetz numbers., Comment: 21 pages, LATeX, 86 KB, no figures

The paper consists of four parts. Part I presents a brief survey of the Nielsen fixed point theory. Part II deals with dynamical zeta functions connected with Nielsen fixed point theory. Part III is concerned with congruences for the Reidemeister and Nielsen numbers. Part IV deals with the Reidemeister torsion . In Chapter 2 we prove that the Reidemeister zeta function of a group endomorphism is a rational function with functional equation in the following cases: the group is finitely generated and an endomorphism is eventually commutative; the group is finite ; the group is a direct sum of a finite group and a finitely generated free abelian group; the group is finitely generated, nilpotent and torsion free. In Chapter 3 we show that the Nielsen zeta function has a positive radius of convergence which admits a sharp estimate in terms of the topological entropy of the map. For a periodic map of a compact polyhedron we prove that Nielsen zeta function is a radical of a rational function. In sect ion 3.4 and 3.5 we give sufficient conditions under which the Nielsen zeta function coincides with the Reidemeister zeta function and is a rational function with functional equation. In Chapter 5 we prove analog of Dold congruences for Reidemeister and Nielsen numbers. In section 6.2 we establish a connection between the Reidemeister torsion and Reidemeister zeta function. In section 6.3 we establish a connection between the Reidemeister torsion of a mapping torus, the eta-invariant, the Rochlin invariant and the multipliers of the theta function. In section 6.4 we describe with the help of the Reidemeister torsion the connection between the topology of the attraction domain of an attractor and the dynamic of the system on the attractor., Comment: 151 pages, LATeX, 298 KB, no figures, minor grammatical changes

In this paper we prove the trace formulas for the Reidemeister numbers of group endomorphisms in the following cases:the group is finitely generated and an endomorphism is eventually commutative; the group is finite ; the group is a direct sum of a finite group and a finitely generated free abelian group; the group is finitely generated, nilpotent and torsion free . These results had previously been known only for the finitely generated free abelian group.As a consequence, we obtain under the same conditions on the fundamental group of a compact polyhedron,the trace formulas for the Reidemeister numbers of a continuous map and under suitable conditions the trace formulas for the Nielsen numbers of a continuous map.The trace formula for the Reidemeister numbers implies the rationality of the Reidemeister zeta function. We prove the rationality and functional equation for the Reidemeister zeta function of an endomorphisms of finitely generated torsion free nilpotent group and of a direct sum of a finite group and a finitely generated free abelian group.We give a new proof of the rationality of the Reidemeister zeta function in the case when the group is finitely generated and the endomorphism is eventually commutative and in the case when group is finite.We give also another proof for the positivity of the radius of convergence of the Nielsen zeta function and propose an exast algebraic lower bound estimation for the radius.We connect the Reidemeister zeta function of an endomorphism of a direct sum of a finite group and a finitely generated free abelian group with the Lefschetz zeta function of the unitary dual map,and as consequence obtain a connection of the Reidemeister zeta function with Reidemeister torsion., Comment: 34 pages, LATeX, 96 KB, no figures