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Indecomposable $F_N$-trees and minimal laminations

Group Theory 2011-10-18 v1 Dynamical Systems Geometric Topology

Abstract

We extend the techniques of [CH] to build an inductive procedure for studying actions in the boundary of the Culler-Vogtmann Outer Space, the main novelty being an adaptation of he classical Rauzy-Veech induction for studying actions of surface type. As an application, we prove that a tree in the boundary of Outer space is free and indecomposable if and only if its dual lamination is minimal up to diagonal leaves. Our main result generalizes [BFH97, Proposition 1.8] as well as the main result of [KL11].

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@article{arxiv.1110.3506,
  title  = {Indecomposable $F_N$-trees and minimal laminations},
  author = {Thierry Coulbois and Arnaud Hilion and Patrick Reynolds},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3506},
  year   = {2011}
}

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27 pages

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