Spectral rigidity for primitive elements of F_N.

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2015-0024MaRDI QIDQ905402zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Camille Horbez

Publication date 19 January 2016

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4624

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathbb R\)-treesactions on treesfree groupsisometric actionsLipschitz-metricouter spaceprimitive elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Abstract: Two trees in the boundary of outer space are said to be emph{primitive-equivalent} whenever their translation length functions are equal in restriction to the set of primitive elements of $F_N$. We give an explicit description of this equivalence relation, showing in particular that it is nontrivial. This question is motivated by our description of the horoboundary of outer space for the Lipschitz metric. Along the proof, we extend a theorem due to White about the Lipschitz metric on outer space to trees in the boundary, showing that the infimal Lipschitz constant of an $F_N$-equivariant map between the metric completion of any two minimal, very small $F_N$-trees is equal to the supremal ratio between the translation lengths of the elements of $F_N$ in these trees. We also provide approximation results for trees in the boundary of outer space.

Review text

An action of the free group \(F_n\) of rank \(n\) on a tree is said to be \textit{minimal} if there is no proper invariant subtree. \textit{Outer Space} \(CV_n\) is the space of simplicial, free, minimal, isometric actions of \(F_n\) on simplicial metric trees, up to equivariant homothety. Let \(cv_n\) be the \textit{unprojectivized outer space}, in which trees are considered up to isometry, instead of homothety. The \textit{translation length} of an element \(g\) of a group \(G\) acting on an \(\mathbb R\)-tree \(T\) is defined as \(\| g\|_T=\inf_{x\in T}d_T(x,gx)\). Two trees in the boundary of outer space are said to be \textit{primitive-equivalent} whenever their translation length functions are equal in restriction to the set of primitive elements of \(F_n\). This equivalence relation is explicitly described, showing in particular that it is nontrivial. In proving this, a theorem due to White about the Lipschitz metric on outer space is extended to trees in the boundary. The authors also provide approximation results for trees in the boundary of outer space.

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