A short proof of Handel and Mosher's alternative for subgroups of Out(F_N).

DOI10.4171/GGD/361MaRDI QIDQ2630770zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Camille Horbez

Publication date 22 July 2016

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4626

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{Out}(F_N)\)finitely generated subgroupsfully irreducible automorphismsouter automorphism groups of free groupssubgroup classification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28)

Abstract: We give a short proof of a theorem of Handel and Mosher stating that any finitely generated subgroup of $extOut(F_N)$ either contains a fully irreducible automorphism, or virtually fixes the conjugacy class of a proper free factor of $F_N$, and we extend their result to non finitely generated subgroups of $extOut(F_N)$.

Review text

Summary: We give a short proof of a theorem of \textit{M. Handel} and \textit{L. Mosher} [Subgroup classification in \(\mathrm{Out}(F_n)\). Preprint (2009; \url{arXiv:0908.1255})] stating that any finitely generated subgroup of \(\mathrm{Out}(F_N)\) either contains a fully irreducible automorphism, or virtually fixes the conjugacy class of a proper free factor of \(F_N\), and we extend their result to non finitely generated subgroups of \(\mathrm{Out}(F_N)\).

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