Counting conjugacy classes of fully irreducibles: double exponential growth

DOI10.1007/S10711-024-00885-4arXiv1801.07471OpenAlexW2784477383WikidataQ128331255 ScholiaQ128331255MaRDI QIDQ6201848FDOQ6201848

Authors: Ilya Kapovich, Catherine Pfaff 

Publication date: 21 February 2024

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Inspired by results of Eskin and Mirzakhani counting closed geodesics of length $leL$ in the moduli space of a fixed closed surface, we consider a similar question in the $Out(F_r)$ setting. The Eskin-Mirzakhani result can be equivalently stated in terms of counting the number of conjugacy classes (within the mapping class group) of pseudo-Anosovs whose dilitations have natural logarithm $leL$. Let $mathfrak{N}_r(L)$ denote the number of $Out(F_r)$-conjugacy classes of fully irreducibles satisfying that the natural logarithm of their dilatation is $leL$. We prove for $rge3$ that as $Loinfty$, the number $mathfrak{N}_r(L)$ has double exponential (in $L$) lower and upper bounds. These bounds reveal behavior not present in the surface setting or in classical hyperbolic dynamical systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07471

zbMATH Keywords

closed geodesicsfree groupouter spacefully irreducible

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65)

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