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Conjugacy problem for residually nilpotent one-relator groups

Determine whether the conjugacy problem is decidable in the subclass of residually nilpotent one-relator groups.

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Background

Residually nilpotent groups retain substantial control via their lower central series, yet the difficulty of the conjugacy problem can persist. Understanding this subclass could bridge algorithmic results between general one-relator groups and well-behaved residually nilpotent cases.

References

Whether residually nilpotent one-relator groups have decidable conjugacy problem also seems to be an open problem.

The theory of one-relator groups: history and recent progress (2501.18306 - Linton et al., 30 Jan 2025) in Subsection 8.1 (The conjugacy problem)