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Growth of intersection numbers for free group automorphisms

Group Theory 2014-02-26 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

For a fully irreducible automorphism \phi of the free group F_k we compute the asymptotics of the intersection number n \mapsto i(T,T'\phi^n) for trees T,T' in Outer space. We also obtain qualitative information about the geometry of the Guirardel core for the trees T and T'\phi^n for n large.

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@article{arxiv.0806.4975,
  title  = {Growth of intersection numbers for free group automorphisms},
  author = {Jason Behrstock and Mladen Bestvina and Matt Clay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4975},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

33 pages, 6 figures, incorporates referee's suggestions

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