Unbounded asymmetry of stretch factors.

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2014.09.007zbMATH Open1305.20034arXiv1405.0771OpenAlexW2076669938MaRDI QIDQ470122FDOQ470122

Authors: Spencer Dowdall, Ilya Kapovich, Christopher J. Leininger 

Publication date: 11 November 2014

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A result of Handel-Mosher guarantees that the ratio of logarithms of stretch factors of any fully irreducible automorphism of the free group $F_N$ and its inverse is bounded by a constant $C_N$. In this short note we show that this constant $C_N$ cannot be chosen independent of $N$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0771

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zbMATH Keywords

free groupsouter automorphisms of free groupsfully irreducible automorphismsstretch factors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Geometric group theory (20F65)

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• The expansion factors of an outer automorphism and its inverse
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