Twisted conjugacy growth series of virtually abelian groups

Abstract: We initiate the study of the twisted conjugacy growth series of a finitely generated group, the formal power series associated to the twisted conjugacy growth function. Our main result is that this series is always an $\mathbb{N}$-rational function when the group in question is virtually abelian, and that this function can be explicitly computed from appropriate information about the group and the twisting endomorphism. We also show that the relative growth series of any twisted conjugacy class in a finitely generated virtually abelian group is itself an explicitly computable $\mathbb{N}$-rational function.