Intersection form, laminations and currents on free groups.

DOI10.1007/S00039-009-0041-3zbMATH Open1242.20052arXiv0711.4337OpenAlexW3101928448MaRDI QIDQ2269898FDOQ2269898

Authors: Ilya Kapovich, Martin Lustig 

Publication date: 12 March 2010

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $F_N$ be a free group of rank $Nge2$, let $mu$ be a geodesic current on $F_N$ and let $T$ be an $mathbbR$-tree with a very small isometric action of $F_N$. We prove that the geometric intersection number $<T,mu>$ is equal to zero if and only if the support of $mu$ is contained in the dual algebraic lamination $L^2(T)$ of $T$. Applying this result, we obtain a generalization of a theorem of Francaviglia regarding length spectrum compactness for currents with full support. As another application, we define the notion of a emph{filling} element in $F_N$ and prove that filling elements are "nearly generic" in $F_N$. We also apply our results to the notion of emph{bounded translation equivalence} in free groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.4337

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zbMATH Keywords

free groupsisometric actionsgeodesic currentsouter spacetranslation length functionsalgebraic laminationsgeometric intersection numbersfilling elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Geometric group theory (20F65) Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Symbolic dynamics (37B10) Dynamical systems involving maps of trees and graphs (37E25) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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