Nielsen realization by gluing: limit groups and free products

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1519095620zbMATH Open1452.20020arXiv1601.02187OpenAlexW2963371089WikidataQ130206637 ScholiaQ130206637MaRDI QIDQ1990494FDOQ1990494

Sebastian Hensel, Dawid Kielak

Publication date: 25 October 2018

Published in: Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We generalise the Karrass-Pietrowski-Solitar and the Nielsen realisation theorems from the setting of free groups to that of free products. As a result, we obtain a fixed point theorem for finite groups of outer automorphisms acting on the relative free splitting complex of Handel--Mosher and on the outer space of a free product of Guirardel--Levitt, as well as a relative version of the Nielsen realisation theorem, which in the case of free groups answers a question of Karen Vogtmann. We also prove Nielsen realisation for limit groups, and as a byproduct obtain a new proof that limit groups are CAT($0$). The proofs rely on a new version of Stallings' theorem on groups with at least two ends, in which some control over the behaviour of virtual free factors is gained.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.02187

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

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