English

Current twisting and nonsingular matrices

Group Theory 2010-03-18 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We show that for k at least 3, given any matrix in GL(k,Z), there is a hyperbolic fully irreducible automorphism of the free group of rank k whose induced action on Z^k is the given matrix.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0907.1075,
  title  = {Current twisting and nonsingular matrices},
  author = {Matt Clay and Alexandra Pettet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.1075},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

23 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor changes

R2 v1 2026-06-21T13:22:12.244Z