Asymmetry of Outer Space of a free product
Abstract
For every free product decomposition of a group of finite Kurosh rank , where is a finitely generated free group, we can associate some (relative) outer space . We study the asymmetry of the Lipschitz metric on the (relative) Outer space . More specifically, we generalise the construction of Algom-Kfir and Bestvina, introducing an (asymmetric) Finsler norm that induces . Let's denote by the outer automorphisms of that preserve the set of conjugacy classes of 's. Then there is an -invariant function such that when is corrected by , the resulting norm is quasisymmetric. As an application, we prove that if we restrict to the -thick part of the relative Outer space for some , is quasi-symmetric . Finally, we generalise for IWIP automorphisms of a free product a theorem of Handel and Mosher, which states that there is a uniform bound which depends only on the group, on the ratio of the relative expansion factors of any IWIP and its inverse.
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@article{arxiv.1507.01849,
title = {Asymmetry of Outer Space of a free product},
author = {Dionysios Syrigos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.01849},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
28 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1408.0544 by other authors