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

DOI10.2140/PJM.2015.277.371zbMATH Open1367.20048arXiv1406.0434OpenAlexW3105678905MaRDI QIDQ498701FDOQ498701

Authors: Ilya Kapovich, Martin Lustig 

Publication date: 29 September 2015

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

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.

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

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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)

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• The Patterson-Sullivan embedding and minimal volume entropy for outer space.
• Asymmetry of outer space.

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