Contracting orbits in Outer space

DOI10.1007/S00209-019-02227-7MaRDI QIDQ2272971zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Spencer Dowdall, Samuel J. Taylor

Publication date 17 September 2019

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04053

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Abstract: We show that strongly contracting geodesics in Outer space project to parameterized quasigeodesics in the free factor complex. This result provides a converse to a theorem of Bestvina--Feighn, and is used to give conditions for when a subgroup of $mathrmOut(mathbbF)$ has a quasi-isometric orbit map into the free factor complex. It also allows one to construct many new examples of strongly contracting geodesics in Outer space.

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