Fixed points of endomorphisms of virtually free groups.

DOI10.2140/PJM.2013.263.207MaRDI QIDQ2391405zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pedro V. Silva

Publication date 31 July 2013

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1355

zbMATH Keywords

attractorsclassification of fixed pointsfixed points of endomorphismshyperbolic boundariesregular fixed pointsrepellersvirtually free groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Stability of topological dynamical systems (37B25) Formal languages and automata (68Q45)

Abstract: A fixed point theorem is proved for inverse transducers, leading to an automata-theoretic proof of the fixed point subgroup of an endomorphism of a finitely generated virtually free group being finitely generated. If the endomorphism is uniformly continuous for the hyperbolic metric, it is proved that the set of regular fixed points in the hyperbolic boundary has finitely many orbits under the action of the finite fixed points. In the automorphism case, it is shown that these regular fixed points are either exponentially stable attractors or exponentially stable repellers.

Review text

A famous result due to \textit{S. M. Gersten} [Adv. Math. 64, 51-85 (1987; Zbl 0616.20014)] says that the fixed point subgroup of an automorphism of a free group is finitely generated. The result was generalized in several directions. In particular, \textit{M. Sykiotis} [Int. J. Algebra Comput. 12, No. 5, 737-745 (2002; Zbl 1010.20016)] extended this result to arbitrary endomorphisms of virtually free groups. In the paper under review, the author gives a new proof of the result of Sykiotis using the theory of automata. Furthermore, he proves that in the case where the endomorphism is uniformly continuous for the hyperbolic metric, the set of regular fixed points in the hyperbolic boundary has finitely many orbits under the action of the finite fixed points. He also shows that in the case of an automorphism, these regular fixed points are either exponentially stable attractors or exponentially stable repellers.

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