Strongly contracting geodesics in outer space.

DOI10.2140/gt.2011.15.2181zbMath1250.20019arXiv0812.1555MaRDI QIDQ658414

Yael Algom-Kfir

Publication date: 12 January 2012

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.1555

zbMATH Keywords

automorphisms of free groups; hyperbolic isometries; outer space; pseudo-Anosov mapping classes; fully irreducible automorphisms; Thurston asymmetric metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F65: Geometric group theory

57M07: Topological methods in group theory

20E36: Automorphisms of infinite groups

20F69: Asymptotic properties of groups

20E05: Free nonabelian groups

30F60: Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces

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