Intersection form, laminations and currents on free groups.

DOI10.1007/s00039-009-0041-3zbMath1242.20052arXiv0711.4337MaRDI QIDQ2269898

Ilya Kapovich, Martin Lustig

Publication date: 12 March 2010

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

free groups; isometric actions; geodesic currents; outer space; translation length functions; algebraic laminations; geometric intersection numbers; filling elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F65: Geometric group theory

37A35: Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory

57M07: Topological methods in group theory

20F28: Automorphism groups of groups

20E05: Free nonabelian groups

37B10: Symbolic dynamics

37E25: Dynamical systems involving maps of trees and graphs

20E08: Groups acting on trees

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