On the action of relatively irreducible automorphisms on their train tracks

MaRDI QIDQ6504597arXivFDO

Authors Stefano Francaviglia, Armando Martino, Dionysios Syrigos

Abstract: Let $G$ be a group and let $mathcalG$ be a free factor system of $G$, namely a free splitting of $G$ as $G=G_1\ast dots\ast G_k\ast F_r$. In this paper, we study the set of train track points for $mathcalG$-irreducible automorphisms $phi$ with exponential growth (relatively to $mathcalG$). Such set is known to coincide with the minimally displaced set $operatornameMin(phi)$ of $phi$. Our main result is that $operatornameMin(phi)$ is co-compact, under the action of the cyclic subgroup generated by $phi$. Along the way we obtain other results that could be of independent interest. For instance, we prove that any point of $operatornameMin(phi)$ is in uniform distance from $operatornameMin(ph{i}^{-1})$. We also prove that the action of $G$ on the product of the attracting and the repelling trees for $phi$, is discrete. Finally, we get some fine insight about the local topology of relative outer space. As an application, we generalise a classical result of Bestvina, Feighn and Handel for the centralisers of irreducible automorphisms of free groups, in the more general context of relatively irreducible automorphisms of a free product. We also deduce that centralisers of elements of $operatornameOut(F_3)$ are finitely generated, which was previously unknown. Finally, we mention that an immediate corollary of co-compactness is that $operatornameMin(phi)$ is quasi-isometric to a line.

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