Relative twisting in outer space

DOI10.1142/S1793525312500100MaRDI QIDQ3166253zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Matt T. Clay, Alexandra Pettet

Publication date 10 October 2012

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.3789

zbMATH Keywords

outer spacesubsurface projectionouter automorphism group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: Subsurface projection has become indispensable in studying the geometry of the mapping class group and the curve complex of a surface. When the subsurface is an annulus, this projection is sometimes called relative twisting. We give two alternate versions of relative twisting for the outer automorphism group of a free group. We use this to describe sufficient conditions for when a folding path enters the thin part of Culler-Vogtmann's Outer space. As an application of our condition, we produce a sequence of fully irreducible outer automorphisms whose axes in Outer space travel through graphs with arbitrarily short cycles; we also describe the asymptotic behavior of their translation lengths.

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