Counting growth types of automorphisms of free groups.

DOI10.1007/S00039-009-0016-4zbMATH Open1196.20038arXiv0801.4844OpenAlexW1997465603MaRDI QIDQ2655439FDOQ2655439

Gilbert Levitt

Publication date: 25 January 2010

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

Abstract: Given an automorphism of a free group $F_n$, we consider the following invariants: $e$ is the number of exponential strata (an upper bound for the number of different exponential growth rates of conjugacy classes); $d$ is the maximal degree of polynomial growth of conjugacy classes; $R$ is the rank of the fixed subgroup. We determine precisely which triples $(e,d,R)$ may be realized by an automorphism of $F_n$. In particular, the inequality $$ (due to Levitt-Lustig) always holds. In an appendix, we show that any conjugacy class grows like a polynomial times an exponential under iteration of the automorphism.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4844

zbMATH Keywords

free groupsfixed subgroupsrelative train track mapsgrowth of automorphismsexponential strata

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Symbolic dynamics (37B10)

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