A very short proof of Forester's rigidity result

DOI10.2140/GT.2003.7.321zbMATH Open1032.20018arXivmath/0301284OpenAlexW2061082468MaRDI QIDQ1416625FDOQ1416625

Authors: Vincent Guirardel 

Publication date: 15 December 2003

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The deformation space of a simplicial G-tree T is the set of G-trees which can be obtained from T by some collapse and expansion moves, or equivalently, which have the same elliptic subgroups as T. We give a short proof of a rigidity result by Forester which gives a sufficient condition for a deformation space to contain an Aut(G)-invariant G-tree. This gives a sufficient condition for a JSJ splitting to be invariant under automorphisms of G. More precisely, the theorem claims that a deformation space contains at most one strongly slide-free G-tree, where strongly slide-free means the following: whenever two edges e_1, e_2 incident on a same vertex v are such that G_{e_1} is a subset of G_{e_2}, then e_1 and e_2 are in the same orbit under G_v.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0301284

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zbMATH Keywords

treesgraphs of groupsgroups of automorphismsfoldingsdeformation spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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