Current twisting and nonsingular matrices.

DOI10.4171/CMH/257MaRDI QIDQ424810zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Matt T. Clay, Alexandra Pettet

Publication date 5 June 2012

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1075

zbMATH Keywords

automorphismsDehn twistsfree groupshomology representationspseudo-Anosov mappings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We show that for k at least 3, given any matrix in GL(k,Z), there is a hyperbolic fully irreducible automorphism of the free group of rank k whose induced action on Z^k is the given matrix.

Review text

A well-known result of Papadopoulos asserts that under the homology representation of the mapping class group \(\mathrm{Mod}(S_g)\to\mathrm{Sp}_{2g}(\mathbb Z)\), the coset of any matrix \(A\in\mathrm{Sp}_{2g}(\mathbb Z)\) contains a pseudo-Anosov mapping class.NEWLINENEWLINE In the paper under review, the authors prove the analogous fact for the homology representation of the outer automorphism group of the free group \(\mathrm{Out}(F_n)\to\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb Z)\) for \(n\geq 3\). They show that the coset of any matrix \(A\in\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb Z)\) contains a fully irreducible automorphism of the free group.NEWLINENEWLINE The proof of the main result mirrors the proof given by Papadopoulos, after noting the appropriate analogues of notions from surface theory in the context of automorphisms of free groups.

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