Algebraic laminations for free products and arational trees
From MaRDI portal
Publication:2279058
Abstract: This work is the first step towards a description of the Gromov boundary of the free factor graph of a free product, with applications to subgroup classification for outer automorphisms. We extend the theory of algebraic laminations dual to trees, as developed by Coulbois, Hilion, Lustig and Reynolds, to the context of free products; this also gives us an opportunity to give a unified account of this theory. We first show that any -tree with dense orbits in the boundary of the corresponding outer space can be reconstructed as a quotient of the boundary of the group by its dual lamination. We then describe the dual lamination in terms of a band complex on compact -trees (generalizing Coulbois-Hilion-Lustig's compact heart), and we analyze this band complex using versions of the Rips machine and of the Rauzy-Veech induction. An important output of the theory is that the above map from the boundary of the group to the -tree is 2-to-1 almost everywhere. A key point for our intended application is a unique duality result for arational trees. It says that if two trees have a leaf in common in their dual laminations, and if one of the trees is arational and relatively free, then they are equivariantly homeomorphic. This statement is an analogue of a result in the free group saying that if two trees are dual to a common current and one of the trees is free arational, then the two trees are equivariantly homeomorphic. However, we notice that in the setting of free products, the continuity of the pairing between trees and currents fails. For this reason, in all this paper, we work with laminations rather than with currents.
In analogy to curve complexes used to study mapping class groups of surfaces, the free factor graph of a free group \(F_n\) has recently turned to be fruitful in the study of Out(\(F_n\)). It is Gromov hyperbolic, as was proved by \textit{M. Bestvina} and \textit{M. Feighn} [Adv. Math. 256, 104--155 (2014; Zbl 1348.20028)], and the action of an automorphism of \(F_n\) is loxodromic if and only if it is fully irreducible. Its Gromov boundary was described by \textit{M. Bestvina} and \textit{P. Reynolds} [Duke Math. J. 164, No. 11, 2213--2251 (2015; Zbl 1337.20040)] and \textit{U. Hamenstädt} [``The boundary of the free splitting graph and the free factor graph, Preprint, \url{arXiv:1211.1630}] as the set of equivalence classes of arational trees. The main goal of the paper under review is to extend the theory of algebraic laminations to the context of free products. A key point for this intended application says that if two trees have a leaf in common in their dual laminations, and if one of the trees is arational and relatively free, then they are equivariantly homeomorphic.
Recommendations
- ℝ-trees and laminations for free groups I: algebraic laminations
- Laminations, trees, and irreducible automorphisms of free groups
- Affine structures, wreath products and free affine actions on linear non-Archimedean trees
- Free Product with Amalgamation and Free Actions on R -Trees
- Free products and the algebraic structure of diffeomorphism groups
- ℝ-trees and laminations for free groups II: the dual lamination of an ℝ-tree
- Lattices in a product of trees, hierarchically hyperbolic groups and virtual torsion‐freeness
- Planar trees, free nonassociative algebras, invariants, and elliptic integrals
- Trees, wreath products and finite Gelfand pairs
- On free actions on Λ-trees
Cites work
- Actions of finitely generated groups on \(\mathbb{R}\)-trees.
- Cell-like mappings and their generalizations
- Cœur et nombre d'intersection pour les actions de groupes sur les arbres
- Deformation and rigidity of simplicial group actions on trees.
- Dynamics for rotation pseudogroups
- Dynamics of \(\text{Out}(F_n)\) on the boundary of outer space.
- Dynamics of isometry systems: On the endpoints of orbits
- Geometric group actions on trees
- Geometric intersection number and analogues of the curve complex for free groups.
- Graphs of actions on \(\mathbf R\)-trees
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4084570 (Why is no real title available?)
- Hyperbolic graphs for free products, and the Gromov boundary of the graph of cyclic splittings
- Hyperbolicity of the complex of free factors.
- Indecomposable \(F_N\)-trees and minimal laminations.
- IRREDUCIBLE AUTOMORPHISMS OF $F_{n}$ HAVE NORTH–SOUTH DYNAMICS ON COMPACTIFIED OUTER SPACE
- Laminations, trees, and irreducible automorphisms of free groups
- Limit groups and groups acting freely on \(\mathbb{R}^n\)-trees.
- Moduli of graphs and automorphisms of free groups
- On indecomposable trees in the boundary of outer space.
- Pseudogroups of isometries of \(\mathbb{R}\) and Rips' theorem on free actions on \(\mathbb{R}\)-trees
- Relative currents
- Rips induction: index of the dual lamination of an R-tree.
- Stable actions of groups on real trees
- The boundary of the complex of free factors.
- The boundary of the outer space of a free product
- THE FREQUENCY SPACE OF A FREE GROUP
- The outer space of a free product
- The rank of actions on ${R}$-trees
- The Tits alternative for \(\text{Out}(F_n)\). I: Dynamics of exponentially-growing automorphisms
- The Tits alternative for \(\text{Out}(F_n)\). II: A Kolchin type theorem.
- Topologie de Gromov équivariante, structures hyperboliques et arbres réels. (Equivariant Gromov topology, hyperbolic structures, and \({\mathbb{R}}\)-trees)
- ℝ-trees and laminations for free groups I: algebraic laminations
- ℝ-trees and laminations for free groups II: the dual lamination of an ℝ-tree
- ℝ-trees and laminations for free groups III: currents and dual ℝ-tree metrics
- ℝ-trees, dual laminations and compact systems of partial isometries
Cited in
(22)- Boundaries of relative factor graphs and subgroup classification for automorphisms of free products
- Cocycle superrigidity from higher rank lattices to \(\mathrm{Out}{(F_N)}\)
- Homogeneity in virtually free groups
- Indecomposable \(F_N\)-trees and minimal laminations.
- Invariant laminations for irreducible automorphisms of free groups.
- Graph towers, laminations and their invariant measures
- Free Product with Amalgamation and Free Actions on R -Trees
- The free splitting complex of a free group. I: Hyperbolicity.
- ℝ-trees and laminations for free groups I: algebraic laminations
- ℝ-trees and laminations for free groups II: the dual lamination of an ℝ-tree
- Planar trees, free nonassociative algebras, invariants, and elliptic integrals
- Commensurations of subgroups of \(\operatorname{Out}(F_N)\)
- Polynomial growth and subgroups of \(\mathrm{Out}(F_N)\)
- Commensurations of the outer automorphism group of a universal Coxeter group
- Between buildings and free factor complexes: A Cohen–Macaulay complex for Out(RAAGs)
- North-South type dynamics of relative atoroidal automorphisms of free groups on a relative space of currents
- On indecomposable trees in the boundary of outer space.
- Currents relative to a malnormal subgroup system
- Homology growth of polynomially growing mapping tori
- Bounded projections to the \(\mathcal{Z} \)-factor graph
- Rigidity of the Torelli subgroup in \(\operatorname{Out}(F_N)\)
- Dynamics of fully irreducible automorphisms of free products
This page was built for publication: Algebraic laminations for free products and arational trees
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2279058)
