scholarly journals The minimally displaced set of an irreducible automorphism is locally finite

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-336
Author(s):  
Stefano Francaviglia ◽  
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Armando Martino ◽  
Dionysios Syrigos ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Free Group ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
General Setting ◽  
Deformation Space ◽  
Train Track ◽  
Free Products ◽  
Deformation Spaces ◽  
Locally Finite ◽  
Irreducible Automorphism

We prove that the minimally displaced set of a relatively irreducible automorphism of a free splitting, situated in a deformation space, is uniformly locally finite. The minimally displaced set coincides with the train track points for an irreducible automorphism. We develop the theory in a general setting of deformation spaces of free products, having in mind the study of the action of reducible automorphisms of a free group on the simplicial bordification of Outer Space. For instance, a reducible automorphism will have invariant free factors, act on the corresponding stratum of the bordification, and in that deformation space it may be irreducible (sometimes this is referred as relative irreducibility).

scholarly journals The minimally displaced set of an irreducible automorphism of $$F_N$$ is co-compact

2021 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-383
Author(s):  
Stefano Francaviglia ◽  
Armando Martino ◽  
Dionysios Syrigos
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Free Group ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Irreducible Automorphism

AbstractWe study the minimally displaced set of irreducible automorphisms of a free group. Our main result is the co-compactness of the minimally displaced set of an irreducible automorphism with exponential growth $$\phi $$ ϕ , under the action of the centraliser $$C(\phi )$$ C ( ϕ ) . As a corollary, we get that the same holds for the action of $$ <\phi>$$ < ϕ > on $$Min(\phi )$$ M i n ( ϕ ) . Finally, we prove that the minimally displaced set of an irreducible automorphism of growth rate one consists of a single point.

Toric Geometry ofSL2(ℂ) Free Group Character Varieties from Outer Space

2018 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 354-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Manon
Keyword(s):  
Free Group ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Integrable Hamiltonian System ◽  
Outer Automorphism ◽  
Character Variety ◽  
Toric Geometry ◽  
Character Varieties ◽  
Simplicial Space ◽  
Proper Map ◽  
Divisorial Valuations

AbstractCuller and Vogtmann defined a simplicial spaceO(g), calledouter space, to study the outer automorphism group of the free groupFg. Using representation theoretic methods, we give an embedding ofO(g) into the analytification of X(Fg,SL2(ℂ)), theSL2(ℂ) character variety ofFg, reproving a result of Morgan and Shalen. Then we show that every pointvcontained in a maximal cell ofO(g) defines a flat degeneration of X(Fg,SL2(ℂ)) to a toric varietyX(PΓ). We relate X(Fg,SL2(ℂ)) andX(v) topologically by showing that there is a surjective, continuous, proper map Ξv:X(Fg,SL2(ℂ)) →X(v). We then show that this map is a symplectomorphism on a dense open subset of X(Fg, SL2(ℂ)) with respect to natural symplectic structures on X(Fg, SL2(ℂ)) andX(v). In this way, we construct an integrable Hamiltonian system in X(Fg, SL2(ℂ)) for each point in a maximal cell ofO(g), and we show that eachvdefines a topological decomposition of X(Fg, SL2(ℂ)) derived from the decomposition ofX(PΓ) by its torus orbits. Finally, we show that the valuations coming from the closure of a maximal cell inO(g) all arise as divisorial valuations built from an associated projective compactification of X(Fg, SL2(ℂ)).

Groups in which every Finitely Generated Subgroup is almost a Free Factor

1979 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 1329-1338 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Brunner ◽  
R. G. Burns
Keyword(s):  
Free Product ◽  
Free Group ◽  
Finite Index ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Free Products

In [5] M. Hall Jr. proved, without stating it explicitly, that every finitely generated subgroup of a free group is a free factor of a subgroup of finite index. This result was made explicit, and used to give simpler proofs of known results, in [1] and [7]. The standard generalization to free products was given in [2]: If, following [13], we call a group in which every finitely generated subgroup is a free factor of a subgroup of finite index an M. Hall group, then a free product of M. Hall groups is again an M. Hall group. The recent appearance of [13], in which this result is reproved, and the rather restrictive nature of the property of being an M. Hall group, led us to attempt to determine the structure of such groups. In this paper we go a considerable way towards achieving this for those M. Hall groups which are both finitely generated and accessible.

scholarly journals The skeleton of a variety of groups

1972 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.M. Bryant ◽  
L.G. Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Free Group ◽  
Finite Groups ◽  
Abelian Groups ◽  
Product Variety ◽  
Finite Variety ◽  
Locally Finite ◽  
Variety Of Groups ◽  
Locally Finite Variety ◽  
Countably Infinite ◽  
Relatively Free Group

The skeleton of a variety of groups is defined to be the intersection of the section closed classes of groups which generate . If m is an integer, m > 1, is the variety of all abelian groups of exponent dividing m, and , is any locally finite variety, it is shown that the skeleton of the product variety is the section closure of the class of finite monolithic groups in . In particular, S) generates . The elements of S are described more explicitly and as a consequence it is shown that S consists of all finite groups in if and only if m is a power of some prime p and the centre of the countably infinite relatively free group of , is a p–group.

scholarly journals Infinite Graphical Frobenius Representations

10.37236/7294 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark E. Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Automorphism Group ◽  
Permutation Group ◽  
Polynomial Growth ◽  
Free Products ◽  
Locally Finite ◽  
Finitely Generated Groups ◽  
Vertex Set ◽  
Vertex Transitive ◽  
Planar Maps ◽  
Transitive Graphs

A graphical Frobenius representation (GFR) of a Frobenius (permutation) group $G$ is a graph $\Gamma$ whose automorphism group Aut$(\Gamma)$ acts as a Frobenius permutation group on the vertex set of $\Gamma$, that is, Aut$(\Gamma)$ acts vertex-transitively with the property that all nonidentity automorphisms fix either exactly one or zero vertices and there are some of each kind. The set $K$ of all fixed-point-free automorphisms together with the identity is called the kernel of $G$. Whenever $G$ is finite, $K$ is a regular normal subgroup of $G$ (F. G. Frobenius, 1901), in which case $\Gamma$ is a Cayley graph of $K$. The same holds true for all the infinite instances presented here.Infinite, locally finite, vertex-transitive graphs can be classified with respect to (i) the cardinality of their set of ends and (ii) their growth rate. We construct families of infinite GFRs for all possible combinations of these two properties. There exist infinitely many GFRs with polynomial growth of degree $d$ for every positive integer $d$, and there exist infinite families of GFRs of exponential growth, both $1$-ended and infinitely-ended, that underlie infinite chiral planar maps. There also exist GFRs of free products of finitely many finitely generated groups. Graphs of connectivity 1 having a Frobenius automorphism group are characterized.

scholarly journals Fields of locally compact quantum groups: Continuity and pushouts

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150064
Author(s):  
Alexandru Chirvasitu
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Groups ◽  
General Setting ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Free Products ◽  
Fell Topology ◽  
Text Field ◽  
Locally Compact Quantum Groups ◽  
Compact Quantum Groups ◽  
Continuous Fields ◽  
The Way

We prove that discrete compact quantum groups (or more generally locally compact, under additional hypotheses) with coamenable dual are continuous fields over their central closed quantum subgroups, and the same holds for free products of discrete quantum groups with coamenable dual amalgamated over a common central subgroup. Along the way we also show that free products of continuous fields of [Formula: see text]-algebras are again free via a Fell-topology characterization for [Formula: see text]-field continuity, recovering a result of Blanchard’s in a somewhat more general setting.

scholarly journals Schreier systems in free products

1965 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. M. S. Dey
Keyword(s):  
Free Group ◽  
Free Products ◽  
Cancellation Property

In 1927 Schreier [8] proved the Nielsen-Schreier Theorem that a subgroup H of a free group F is a free group by selecting a left transversal for H in F possessing a certain cancellation property. Hall and Rado [5] call a subset T of a free group F a Schreier system in F if it possesses this cancellation property, and consider the existence of a subgroup H of F such that a given Schreier system T is a left transversal for H in F.

scholarly journals North–South dynamics of hyperbolic free group automorphisms on the space of currents

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 427-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Lustig ◽  
Caglar Uyanik
Keyword(s):  
Free Group ◽  
Outer Automorphism ◽  
Train Track ◽  
Geodesic Currents ◽  
Group Automorphisms ◽  
Free Group Automorphisms

Let [Formula: see text] be a hyperbolic outer automorphism of a non-abelian free group [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] admit absolute train track representatives. We prove that [Formula: see text] acts on the space of projectivized geodesic currents on [Formula: see text] with generalized uniform North-South dynamics.

scholarly journals A train track directed random walk on Out(Fr)

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (05) ◽  
pp. 745-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilya Kapovich ◽  
Catherine Pfaff
Keyword(s):  
Random Walk ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Simple Random Walk ◽  
Index Formula ◽  
Positive Probability ◽  
Train Track ◽  
The Ideal

Several known results, by Rivin, Calegari-Maher and Sisto, show that an element φn ∈ Out (Fr), obtained after n steps of a simple random walk on Out (Fr), is fully irreducible with probability tending to 1 as n → ∞. In this paper, we construct a natural "train track directed" random walk 𝒲 on Out (Fr) (where r ≥ 3). We show that, for the element φn ∈ Out (Fr), obtained after n steps of this random walk, with asymptotically positive probability the element φn has the following properties: φn is an ageometric fully irreducible, which admits a train track representative with no periodic Nielsen paths and exactly one nondegenerate illegal turn, that φn has "rotationless index" [Formula: see text] (so that the geometric index of the attracting tree Tφn of φn is 2r - 3), has index list [Formula: see text] and the ideal Whitehead graph being the complete graph on 2r - 1 vertices, and that the axis bundle of φn in the Outer space CV r consists of a single axis.

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