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Asymmetry of Outer Space of a free product

Group Theory 2015-11-21 v1

Abstract

For every free product decomposition G=G1...GqFrG = G_{1} \ast ...\ast G_{q} \ast F_{r} of a group of finite Kurosh rank GG, where FrF_r is a finitely generated free group, we can associate some (relative) outer space O\mathcal{O}. We study the asymmetry of the Lipschitz metric dRd_R on the (relative) Outer space O\mathcal{O}. More specifically, we generalise the construction of Algom-Kfir and Bestvina, introducing an (asymmetric) Finsler norm L\|\cdot\|^{L} that induces dRd_R. Let's denote by Out(G,O)Out(G, \mathcal{O}) the outer automorphisms of GG that preserve the set of conjugacy classes of GiG_i's. Then there is an Out(G,O)Out(G, \mathcal{O})-invariant function Ψ:OR\Psi : \mathcal{O} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} such that when L\| \cdot \|^{L} is corrected by dΨd \Psi, the resulting norm is quasisymmetric. As an application, we prove that if we restrict dRd_R to the ϵ\epsilon-thick part of the relative Outer space for some ϵ>0\epsilon >0, 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 ϕOut(Fn)\phi \in Out(F_n) 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