A train track directed random walk on $Out(F_r)$
Abstract
Several known results, by Rivin, Calegari-Maher and Sisto, show that an element , obtained after steps of a simple random walk on , is fully irreducible with probability tending to 1 as . In this paper we construct a natural "train-track directed" random walk on (where ). We show that, for the element , obtained after steps of this random walk, with asymptotically positive probability the element has the following properties: is an ageometric fully irreducible, which admits a train-track representative with no periodic Nielsen paths and exactly one nondegenerate illegal turn, that has "rotationless index" (so that the geometric index of the attracting tree of is ), has index list and the ideal Whitehead graph being the complete graph on vertices, and that the axis bundle of in the Outer space consists of a single axis.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1409.8044,
title = {A train track directed random walk on $Out(F_r)$},
author = {Ilya Kapovich and Catherine Pfaff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.8044},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Various small updates, incorporating the referee's comments; to appear in the International Journal of Algebra and Computation