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Simultaneous construction of hyperbolic isometries

Group Theory 2018-03-16 v2

Abstract

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 conjecture of Handel and Mosher regarding relatively fully irreducible subgroups and elements in the outer automorphism group of a free group.

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@article{arxiv.1609.05579,
  title  = {Simultaneous construction of hyperbolic isometries},
  author = {Matt Clay and Caglar Uyanik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.05579},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

18 pages; v2: slight strengthening of main theorem, incorporated comments from referee, to appear in Pacific Journal of Mathematics

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