An index for counting fixed points of automorphisms of free groups

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-98-09314-0zbMath0946.20010OpenAlexW1483877865MaRDI QIDQ1974831

Gilbert Levitt, Damien Gaboriau, Martin Lustig, Andre Jaeger

Publication date: 27 March 2000

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1215/s0012-7094-98-09314-0

zbMATH Keywords

fixed pointsnumbers of endsautomorphismsfree groupsfixed subgroupsgroups acting on \(\mathbb{R}\)-treesinfinite reduced words

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Groups acting on trees (20E08)

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