The Tits alternative for \(\text{Out}(F_n)\). I: Dynamics of exponentially-growing automorphisms

DOI10.2307/121043zbMath0984.20025arXivmath/9712217OpenAlexW1983883140WikidataQ29543323 ScholiaQ29543323MaRDI QIDQ1573719

Mladen Bestvina, Michael Handel, Mark E. Feighn

Publication date: 14 May 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9712217

zbMATH Keywords

subgroups of finite index free subgroups outer automorphism groups free groups Tits alternative train tracks attracting laminations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Free nonabelian groups (20E05)

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