Simple dynamics of automorphisms

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(99)00171-6MaRDI QIDQ5928494zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Eric Freden

Publication date 23 July 2001

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-8641(99)00171-6

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groups of free groupsconvergence groupsGromov boundariesgroup actionsnegatively curved groupssubgroups of finite indexword hyperbolic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

Review text

A negatively curved (word hyperbolic) group \(G\) acts on its Gromov boundary \(\partial G\) as a (discrete) convergence group (also, the left action of \(G\) coincides with that of its inner automorphism group). A convergence group is a group of homeomorphisms having the main dynamical property of groups of Möbius transformations, allowing the distinction of its elements into elliptic, parabolic and loxodromic ones. Equivalently, a group acts as a convergence group on a compact first countable space \(X\) if and only if it acts properly discontinuously on the subspace \(\mathcal T\) of \(X^3\) consisting of all triples of points which are pairwise different.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe question considered in the present paper is the following: which other subgroups of the automorphism group of \(G\) have a convergence action on \(\partial G\)? The basic case of free groups is considered. The main result states that, if a group of automorphisms of a free group \(F\) contains the inner automorphisms group as a normal subgroup and acts as a convergence group on \(\partial F\) then it is a finite extension of the inner automorphism group. For the proof the result is used that if a convergence group of the first kind (i.e. the ordinary set is empty) has a normal subgroup acting cocompactly on \(\mathcal T\) then the normal subgroup has finite index. Various concrete examples of automorphisms of a free group are discussed which do not generate convergence groups on its boundary.

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