Convexity of balls in the outer space

DOI10.4171/GGD/615MaRDI QIDQ6290171arXivFDO

Authors Yulan Qing, Kasra Rafi

Publication date 16 August 2017

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/GGD/615

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65)

arXiv classification

math.GRmath.GT

Abstract: In this paper we study the convexity properties of geodesics and balls in Outer space equipped with the Lipschitz metric. We introduce a class of geodesics called balanced folding paths and show that, for every loop $alpha$, the length of $alpha$ along a balanced folding path is not larger than the maximum of its lengths at the end points. This implies that out-going balls are weakly convex. We then show that these results are sharp by providing several counterexamples.

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