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

DOI10.4064/FM214-1-1zbMATH Open1248.20025arXiv1001.0325OpenAlexW2963912131MaRDI QIDQ3174478FDOQ3174478

Mladen Bestvina

Publication date: 14 October 2011

Published in: Fundamenta Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

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

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zbMATH Keywords

free group automorphismsouter spacetrain tracksLipchitz metrictrain track representatives

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Displacements of automorphisms of free groups II: Connectivity of level sets and decision problems
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• The geometry of the Thurston metric: a survey
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• Constructing group actions on quasi-trees and applications to mapping class groups
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• The topology and geometry of automorphism groups of free groups
• Asymmetry of outer space.
• Hyperbolicity of the complex of free factors.
• RELATIVE TWISTING IN OUTER SPACE
• Displacements of automorphisms of free groups I: Displacement functions, minpoints and train tracks
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• Random outer automorphisms of free groups: Attracting trees and their singularity structures
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