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Growth and displacement of free product automorphisms

Group Theory 2023-07-27 v2

Abstract

It is well known for an irreducible free group automorphism that its growth rate is equal to the minimal Lipschitz displacement of its action on Culler-Vogtmann space. This follows as a consequence of the existence of train track representatives for the automorphism. We extend this result to the general - possibly reducible - case as well as to the free product situation where growth is replaced by `relative growth'.

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@article{arxiv.2307.13502,
  title  = {Growth and displacement of free product automorphisms},
  author = {Matthew Collins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.13502},
  year   = {2023}
}