Strongly contracting geodesics in outer space.

DOI10.2140/gt.2011.15.2181zbMath1250.20019arXiv0812.1555OpenAlexW3105640372MaRDI 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 groupshyperbolic isometriesouter spacepseudo-Anosov mapping classesfully irreducible automorphismsThurston asymmetric metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60)

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