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A subquadratic algorithm for the simultaneous conjugacy problem

The $d$-Simultaneous Conjugacy problem in the symmetric group $S_n$ asks whether there exists a permutation $τ\in S_n$ such that $b_j = τ^{-1}a_j τ$ holds for all $j = 1,2,\ldots, d$, where $a_1, a_2,\ldots , a_d$ and $b_1, b_2,\ldots , b_d$ are given sequences of permutations in $S_n$. The time complexity of existing algorithms for solving the problem is $O(dn^2)$. We show that for a given positive integer $d$ the $d$-Simultaneous Conjugacy problem in $S_n$ can be solved in $o(n^2)$ time.