A train track directed random walk on Out(F_r).

DOI10.1142/S0218196715500186MaRDI QIDQ2942800zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ilya Kapovich, Catherine Pfaff

Publication date 11 September 2015

Published in International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.8044

zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graphsfree group automorphismsfully irreducible automorphismsindex theoryouter spacerandom walkstrain track maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Geometric group theory (20F65) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

Abstract: Several known results, by Rivin, Calegari-Maher and Sisto, show that an element $ph{i}_{n}inOut(F_r)$, obtained after $n$ steps of a simple random walk on $Out(F_r)$, is fully irreducible with probability tending to 1 as $noinfty$. In this paper we construct a natural "train-track directed" random walk $mathcalW$ on $Out(F_r)$ (where $rge3$). We show that, for the element $ph{i}_{n}inOut(F_r)$, obtained after $n$ steps of this random walk, with asymptotically positive probability the element $ph{i}_n$ has the following properties: $ph{i}_n$ is an ageometric fully irreducible, which admits a train-track representative with no periodic Nielsen paths and exactly one nondegenerate illegal turn, that $ph{i}_n$ has "rotationless index" $frac32-r$ (so that the geometric index of the attracting tree $T_{ph{i}_n}$ of $ph{i}_n$ is $2r-3$), has index list $frac32-r$ and the ideal Whitehead graph being the complete graph on $2r-1$ vertices, and that the axis bundle of $ph{i}_n$ in the Outer space $C{V}_r$ consists of a single axis.

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