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We construct a `nice' subcomplex of the Outer Space for a free product in order to give a geometric proof that the pure symmetric outer automorphisms of a given splitting of a free product are generated by factor outer automorphisms and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Harry Iveson

Given isometric actions by a group G on finitely many \delta-hyperbolic metric spaces, we provide a sufficient condition that guarantees the existence of a single element in G that is hyperbolic for each action. As an application we prove a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Matt Clay , Caglar Uyanik

We extend a result of Napp Avelli, van der Put, and Rocha with a system-theoretic interpretation to the noncommutative case: Let P be a f.g. projective module over a two-sided Noetherian domain. If P admits a subdirect product structure of…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Mohamed Barakat

Given a countable group $G$ splitting as a free product $G=G_1\ast\dots\ast G_k\ast F_N$, we establish classification results for subgroups of the group $Out(G,\mathcal{F})$ of all outer automorphisms of $G$ that preserve the conjugacy…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Vincent Guirardel , Camille Horbez

This is the fourth and last in a series of four papers (with research announcement posted on this arXiv) that develop a decomposition theory for subgroups of $\text{Out}(F_n)$. In this paper we develop general ping-pong techniques for the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Michael Handel , Lee Mosher

We study the loxodromic elements for the action of $Out(F_n)$ on the free splitting complex of the rank $n$ free group $F_n$. We prove that each outer automorphism is either loxodromic, or has bounded orbits without any periodic point, or…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Michael Handel , Lee Mosher

We establish Marstrand-type projection theorems for orthogonal projections along geodesics onto m-dimensional subspaces of hyperbolic $n$-space by a geometric argument. Moreover, we obtain a Besicovitch-Federer type characterization of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Zoltán M. Balogh , Annina Iseli

This is the second of a three part study of relative free splitting complexes $\mathcal{FS}(\Gamma;\mathscr A)$, known from Part~I to be Gromov hyperbolic. Here and in~Part III we focus on stable translation lengths $\tau_\phi \ge 0$ of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Michael Handel , Lee Mosher

Given a free group of rank r >= 3 and two exponentially growing outer automorphisms {\psi} and {\phi} with dual lamination pairs {\Lambda^\pm}_{\psi} and {\Lambda^\pm}_{\phi} associated to them, which satisfy a notion of independence…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-26 Pritam Ghosh

If $N \subset \R$ is a separable II$_1$-factor, the space $\Hom(N,\R)$ of unitary equivalence classes of unital *-homomorphisms $N \to \R$ is shown to have a surprisingly rich structure. If $N$ is not hyperfinite, $\Hom(N,\R)$ is an…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Nathanial P. Brown

For every irreducible automorphism $\phi\in\text{SL}_3({\mathbb Z})$ of the $3$-torus, for which the product of the expanding eigenvalues is positive, we construct a pseudo-Anosov mapping $f$ of an associated surface, semi-conjugate and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Richard Kenyon

We re-cast in a more combinatorial and computational form the foldings approach of John Stallings and pursue a detailed study of the subgroup structure of free groups. In particular, we introduce the notions of an "algebraic" and a "free"…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ilya Kapovich , Alexei Myasnikov

We prove that all atoroidal automorphisms of $Out(F_N)$ act on the space of projectivized geodesic currents with generalized north-south dynamics. As an application, we produce new examples of non virtually cyclic, free and purely atoroidal…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Caglar Uyanik

We give upper bounds, linear in rank, to the topological dimensions of the Gromov boundaries of the intersection graph, the free factor graph and the cyclic splitting graph of a finitely generated free group.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-09 Mladen Bestvina , Camille Horbez , Richard D. Wade

We give a concise presentation for the group of pure symmetric outer automorphisms of a given splitting of a free product $G_{1}\ast\dots\ast G_{n}$. These are the (outer) automorphisms which preserve the conjugacy classes of the free…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Harry Iveson

We show that strongly contracting geodesics in Outer space project to parameterized quasigeodesics in the free factor complex. This result provides a converse to a theorem of Bestvina--Feighn, and is used to give conditions for when a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Spencer Dowdall , Samuel J. Taylor

Given a free-by-cyclic group $G = F_N \rtimes_\varphi \mathbb{Z}$ determined by any outer automorphism $\varphi \in \mathrm{Out}(F_N)$ which is represented by an expanding irreducible train-track map $f$, we construct a $K(G,1)$ $2$-complex…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Spencer Dowdall , Ilya Kapovich , Christopher J. Leininger

For a large class of metric spaces with nice local structure, which includes Banach-Finsler manifolds and geodesic spaces of curvature bounded above, we give sufficient conditions for a local homeomorphism to be a covering projection. We…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Olivia Gutu , Jesus A. Jaramillo

Given a free product $G$, we investigate the existence of faithful free representations of the outer automorphism group $\text{Out}(G)$, or in other words of embeddings of $\text{Out}(G)$ into $\text{Out}\left(F_m\right)$ for some $m$. This…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Alexis Marchand

We use the measurable Hall's theorem due to Cie\'sla and Sabok to prove that (i) if two measurable sets $A,B \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of the same measure are bounded remainder sets with respect to a given irrational $d$-dimensional vector…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Mark Mordechai Etkind , Sigrid Grepstad , Mihail N. Kolountzakis , Nir Lev