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Loxodromic elements in the cyclic splitting complex and their centralizers

Group Theory 2019-09-18 v2

Abstract

We show that an outer automorphism acts loxodromically on the cyclic splitting complex if and only if it has a filling lamination and no generic leaf of the lamination is carried by a vertex group of a cyclic splitting. This is the analog for the cyclic splitting complex of Handel-Mosher's theorem on loxodromics for the free splitting complex. We also show that such outer automorphisms have virtually cyclic centralizers.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1710.10478,
  title  = {Loxodromic elements in the cyclic splitting complex and their centralizers},
  author = {Radhika Gupta and Derrick Wigglesworth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.10478},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

27 pages, 2 figures. Sections 3 & 4 reorganized and exposition improved. Final version; accepted for publication in Pacific Journal of Mathematics

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