Solvable subgroups of \(\text{Out}(F_n)\) are virtually Abelian.

DOI10.1023/B:GEOM.0000022864.30278.34zbMath1052.20027arXivmath/9712219OpenAlexW2963131344MaRDI QIDQ1826904

Mladen Bestvina, Michael Handel, Mark E. Feighn

Publication date: 6 August 2004

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9712219

zbMATH Keywords

subgroups of finite indexouter automorphism groupsfree groupssolvable subgroupsTits alternativerelative train tracks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Free nonabelian groups (20E05)

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