The recognition theorem for Out(F_n).

DOI10.4171/GGD/116zbMATH Open1239.20036arXivmath/0612702OpenAlexW2963840636MaRDI QIDQ646375FDOQ646375

Authors: Michael Handel, Mark Feighn 

Publication date: 17 November 2011

Published in: Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Our goal is to find dynamic invariants that completely determine elements of the outer automorphism group $Out(F_n)$ of the free group $F_n$ of rank $n$. To avoid finite order phenomena, we do this for {it forward rotationless} elements. This is not a serious restriction. For example, there is $K_n>0$ depending only on $n$ such that, for all $phiinOut(F_n)$, $ph{i}^{K_n}$ is forward rotationless. An important part of our analysis is to show that rotationless elements are represented by particularly nice relative train track maps.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612702

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zbMATH Keywords

free groupsouter automorphism groupsouter automorphismstrain tracksattracting laminations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Fixed points and periodic points of dynamical systems; fixed-point index theory; local dynamics (37C25)

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