On the geometry of the edge splitting complex.

DOI10.4171/GGD/239MaRDI QIDQ399432zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Lucas Sabalka, Dmytro Savchuk

Publication date 19 August 2014

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.1998

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic coneshyperbolicityasymptotic dimensionquasi-isometriesouter automorphisms of free groupscurve complexesedge splitting complexesgeodesic pathshyperbolic complexes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: The group $Out$ of outer automorphisms of the free group has been an object of active study for many years, yet its geometry is not well understood. Recently, effort has been focused on finding a hyperbolic complex on which $Out$ acts, in analogy with the curve complex for the mapping class group. Here, we focus on one of these proposed analogues: the edge splitting complex $ESC$, equivalently known as the separating sphere complex. We characterize geodesic paths in its 1-skeleton algebraically, and use our characterization to find lower bounds on distances between points in this graph. Our distance calculations allow us to find quasiflats of arbitrary dimension in $ESC$. This shows that $ESC$: is not hyperbolic, has infinite asymptotic dimension, and is such that every asymptotic cone is infinite dimensional. These quasiflats contain an unbounded orbit of a reducible element of $Out$. As a consequence, there is no coarsely $Out$-equivariant quasiisometry between $ESC$ and other proposed curve complex analogues, including the regular free splitting complex $FSC$, the (nontrivial intersection) free factorization complex $FFZC$, and the free factor complex $FFC$, leaving hope that some of these complexes are hyperbolic.

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