Train tracks and automorphisms of free groups

DOI10.2307/2946562zbMath0757.57004OpenAlexW2034592120MaRDI QIDQ1190607

Mladen Bestvina, Michael Handel

Publication date: 26 September 1992

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2946562

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupsgraphsfree groupsouter automorphismsirreducible outer automorphismsranks of fixed point subgroupsreducible automorphismsstable relative train track mapstrain track maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Groups acting on trees (20E08)

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