Stabilizers of R-trees with free isometric actions of F_N.

DOI10.1515/JGT.2010.070MaRDI QIDQ3117255zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ilya Kapovich, Martin Lustig

Publication date 25 February 2012

Published in jgth (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1881

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathbb R\)-treesisometric actionsmetric simplicial treesouter automorphism groups of free groupsOuter spaceTits alternativevirtually cyclic subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28)

Abstract: We prove that if $T$ is an $mathbbR$-tree with a minimal free isometric action of $F_N$, then the $Out(F_N)$-stabilizer of the projective class $[T]$ is virtually cyclic. For the special case where $T=T_{+}(phi)$ is the forward limit tree of an atoroidal iwip element $phiinOut(F_N)$ this is a consequence of the results of Bestvina, Feighn and Handel, via very different methods. We also derive a new proof of the Tits alternative for subgroups of $Out(F_N)$ containing an iwip (not necessarily atoroidal): we prove that every such subgroup $GleOut(F_N)$ is either virtually cyclic or contains a free subgroup of rank two. The general case of the Tits alternative for subgroups of $Out(F_N)$ is due to Bestvina, Feighn and Handel.

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