Translation lengths in Out(F_n).

DOI10.1023/A:1019695003668zbMATH Open1041.20024arXivmath/0009191OpenAlexW3008401439MaRDI QIDQ698120FDOQ698120

Authors: Emina Alibegović 

Publication date: 18 September 2002

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that all elements of infinite order in $Out(F_n)$ have positive translation lengths; moreover, they are bounded away from zero. Consequences include a new proof that solvable subgroups of $Out(F_n)$ are finitely generated and virtually abelian and the new result that such subgroups are quasi-convex.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0009191

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zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsfree groupsfundamental groupssolvable subgroupsouter automorphismstranslation lengthsword metricsvirtually Abelian groupselements of infinite order

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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