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Normalizers and centralizers of cyclic subgroups generated by lone axis fully irreducible outer automorphisms

Group Theory 2016-07-05 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We let φ\varphi be an ageometric fully irreducible outer automorphism so that its Handel-Mosher axis bundle consists of a single unique axis. We show that the centralizer Cen(φ)Cen(\langle\varphi\rangle) of the cyclic subgroup generated by φ\varphi equals the stabilizer Stab(Λφ+)\text{Stab}(\Lambda^+_\varphi) of the attracting lamination Λφ+\Lambda^+_{\varphi} and is isomorphic to Z\mathbb Z. We further show, via an analogous result about the commensurator, that the normalizer N(φ)N(\langle\varphi\rangle) of φ\langle \varphi \rangle is isomorphic to either Z\mathbb Z or Z2Z2\mathbb Z_2 * \mathbb Z_2.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.07206,
  title  = {Normalizers and centralizers of cyclic subgroups generated by lone axis fully irreducible outer automorphisms},
  author = {Yael Algom-Kfir and Catherine Pfaff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07206},
  year   = {2016}
}
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