Cutting sequences and palindromes.

zbMATH Open1194.20026arXiv0803.0234MaRDI QIDQ3567909FDOQ3567909

Authors: Jane Gilman, Linda Keen 

Publication date: 17 June 2010

Abstract: We give a unified geometric approach to some theorems about primitive elements and palindromes in free groups of rank 2. The geometric treatment gives new proofs of the theorems. Dedicated to Bill Harvey on his 65th birthday.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0234

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zbMATH Keywords

free groupsprimitive wordspalindromic words

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Combinatorics on words (68R15)

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• Combinatorial growth in the modular group
• Roots and rational powers in \(\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb {R})\) and discreteness
• Enumerating palindromes and primitives in rank two free groups.
• On palindromes with three or four letters associated to the Markoff spectrum
• On some properties palindromes of automorphisms of a free group

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