The actions of {\mathit{Out}(F_k)} on the boundary of Outer space and on the space of currents: minimal sets and equivariant incompatibility

DOI10.1017/S0143385706001015MaRDI QIDQ5292526zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ilya Kapovich, Martin Lustig

Publication date 21 June 2007

Published in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605548

zbMATH Keywords

compactificationsdiagonal actionsequivariant embeddingsequivariant incompatibilitieslength functionsouter spaceproduct spacesspaces of geodesic currents

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We prove that for $kge5$ there does not exist a continuous map $partialCV(F_k)omathbbPCurr(F_k)$ that is either $Out(F_k)$-equivariant or $Out(F_k)$-anti-equivariant. Here $partialCV(F_k)$ is the "length-function" boundary of Culler-Vogtmann's Outer space $CV(F_k)$, and $mathbbPCurr(F_k)$ is the space of projectivized geodesic currents for $F_k$. We also prove that, if $kge3$, for the action of $Out(F_k)$ on $mathbbPCurr(F_k)$ and for the diagonal action of $Out(F_k)$ on the product space $partialCV(F_k)imesmathbbPCurr(F_k)$ there exist unique non-empty minimal closed $Out(F_k)$-invariant sets. Our results imply that for $kge3$ any continuous $Out(F_k)$-equivariant embedding of $CV(F_k)$ into $mathbbPCurr(F_k)$ (such as the Patterson-Sullivan embedding) produces a new compactification of Outer space, different from the usual "length-function" compactification $$.

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