An algorithm to detect full irreducibility by bounding the volume of periodic free factors
Group Theory
2014-07-24 v3 Geometric Topology
Abstract
We provide an effective algorithm for determining whether an element of the outer automorphism group of a free group is fully irreducible. Our method produces a finite list which can be checked for periodic proper free factors.
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@article{arxiv.1402.7342,
title = {An algorithm to detect full irreducibility by bounding the volume of periodic free factors},
author = {Matt Clay and Johanna Mangahas and Alexandra Pettet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.7342},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
16 pages; to appear in MMJ