Relative free splitting and free factor complexes I: Hyperbolicity

arXiv1407.3508MaRDI QIDQ6253095FDOQ6253095

Authors: Michael Handel, Lee Mosher 

Publication date: 13 July 2014

Abstract: We study the large scale geometry of the relative free splitting complex and the relative complex of free factor systems of the rank $n$ free group $F_n$, relative to the choice of a free factor system of $F_n$, proving that these complexes are hyperbolic. Furthermore we present the proof in a general context, obtaining hyperbolicity of the relative free splitting complex and of the relative complex of free factor systems of a general group $Gamma$, relative to the choice of a free factor system of $Gamma$. The proof yields information about coarsely transitive families of quasigeodesics in each of these complexes, expressed in terms of fold paths of free splittings.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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