Irreducible Outer Automorphisms of a Free Group

DOI10.2307/2048318zbMath0717.20026OpenAlexW4253793770MaRDI QIDQ3204669

Steve M. Gersten, John R. Stallings

Publication date: 1991

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2048318

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupcharacteristic polynomialfinitely generated free groupimmersionouter automorphismhomotopy equivalencefinite graphstopological realizationPV-polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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