Intersection form, laminations and currents on free groups.

DOI10.1007/S00039-009-0041-3MaRDI QIDQ2269898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ilya Kapovich, Martin Lustig

Publication date 12 March 2010

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

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

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)

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.

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