Unbounded asymmetry of stretch factors.

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2014.09.007MaRDI QIDQ470122zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

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)

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 $N$.

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