Random length-spectrum rigidity for free groups
Group Theory
2011-02-07 v3 Geometric Topology
Abstract
We say that a subset is \emph{spectrally rigid} if whenever are points of the (unprojectivized) Outer space such that for every then in . It is well-known that itself is spectrally rigid; it also follows from the result of Smillie and Vogtmann that there does not exist a finite spectrally rigid subset of . We prove that if is a free basis of (where ) then almost every trajectory of a non-backtracking simple random walk on with respect to is a spectrally rigid subset of .
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1001.1729,
title = {Random length-spectrum rigidity for free groups},
author = {Ilya Kapovich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.1729},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
12 pages, no figures; to appear in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society; updated ref to the Duchin-Leininger-Rafi paper