Relative free splitting and free factor complexes I: Hyperbolicity

MaRDI QIDQ6253095zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael Handel, Lee Mosher

Publication date 13 July 2014

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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