A Bers-like proof of the existence of train tracks for free group automorphisms.

DOI10.4064/FM214-1-1MaRDI QIDQ3174478zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mladen Bestvina

Publication date 14 October 2011

Published in Fundamenta Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0325

zbMATH Keywords

free group automorphismsouter spacetrain tracksLipchitz metrictrain track representatives

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36)

Abstract: Using Lipschitz distance on Outer space we give another proof of the train track theorem.

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• On the geometry of outer space
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