Free groups as end homogeneity groups of 3-manifolds

Abstract: For every finitely generated free group

F

, we construct an irreducible open

3

-manifold

M_{F}

whose end set is homeomorphic to a Cantor set, and with the end homogeneity group of

M_{F}

isomorphic to

F

. The end homogeneity group is the group of all self-homeomorphisms of the end set that extend to homeomorphisms of the entire

3

-manifold. This extends an earlier result that constructs, for each finitely generated abelian group

G

, an irreducible open

3

-manifold

M_{G}

with end homogeneity group

G

. The method used in the proof of our main result also shows that if

G

is a group with a Cayley graph in

m a t h b b R^{3}

such that the graph automorphisms have certain nice extension properties, then there is an irreducible open

3

-manifold

M_{G}

with end homogeneity group

G

.

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