Whitehead moves for G -trees

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDN118MaRDI QIDQ3624299zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 29 April 2009

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2107

zbMATH Keywords

Culler-Vogtmann outer spacedeformation spaceselementary movesJSJ decompositionsrigidity theoremssimplicial treesWhitehead moves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Abstract: We generalize the familiar notion of a Whitehead move from Culler and Vogtmann's Outer space to the setting of deformation spaces of G-trees. Specifically, we show that there are two moves, each of which transforms a reduced G-tree into another reduced G-tree, that suffice to relate any two reduced trees in the same deformation space. These two moves further factor into three moves between reduced trees that have simple descriptions in terms of graphs of groups. This result has several applications.

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