Patterson-Sullivan currents, generic stretching factors and the asymmetric Lipschitz metric for outer space

DOI10.2140/PJM.2015.277.371MaRDI QIDQ498701zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ilya Kapovich, Martin Lustig

Publication date 29 September 2015

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0434

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic currentsPatterson-Sullivan measuresCuller-Vogtmann's outer space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Geometric group theory (20F65) Symbolic dynamics (37B10) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We quantitatively relate the Patterson-Sullivant currents and generic stretching factors for free group automorphisms to the asymmetric Lipschitz metric on Outer space and to Guirardel's intersection number.

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