Unbounded asymmetry of stretch factors
Group Theory
2015-08-10 v1
Abstract
A result of Handel-Mosher guarantees that the ratio of logarithms of stretch factors of any fully irreducible automorphism of the free group and its inverse is bounded by a constant . In this short note we show that this constant cannot be chosen independent of .
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@article{arxiv.1405.0771,
title = {Unbounded asymmetry of stretch factors},
author = {Spencer Dowdall and Ilya Kapovich and Christopher J Leininger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0771},
year = {2015}
}
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2 pages