Conjugacy in Miller's Groups

Abstract

In 1971 C.F.\ Miller associated to every finitely presented group $G$ a free-by-free group $M(G)$ known as the Miller Machine, whose conjugacy problem is closely related to the conjugacy and word problems of $G$. We quantify this relationship, and look to fully understand the conjugacy problem of $M(G)$; namely, we reduce the conjugacy problem in $M(G)$ to a strong form of list conjugacy in $G$, which we term iso-computational list conjugacy. As an application, we show that if $G$ is finite, the conjugacy problem for $M(G)$ is in $\mathsf{PSPACE}$.

Published in International Journal of Algebra and Computation