Primitivity rank for random elements in free groups

Abstract: For a free group

F_{r}

of finite rank

r g e 2

and a nontrivial element

w i n F_{r}

the emph{primitivity rank}

p i (w)

is the smallest rank of a subgroup

H l e F_{r}

such that

w i n H

and that

w

is not primitive in

H

(if no such

H

exists, one puts

p i (w) = i n f t y

). The set of all subgroups of

F_{r}

of rank

p i (w)

containing

w

as a non-primitive element is denoted

C r i t (w)

. These notions were introduced by Puder in cite{Pu14}. We prove that there exists an exponentially generic subset

V s u b s e t e q F_{r}

such that for every

w i n V

we have

p i (w) = r

and

C r i t (w) = F_{r}

.

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