Translation lengths in \(\text{Out}(F_n)\).

DOI10.1023/A:1019695003668zbMath1041.20024arXivmath/0009191OpenAlexW3008401439MaRDI QIDQ698120

Emina Alibegović

Publication date: 18 September 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0009191

zbMATH Keywords

elements of infinite orderfinitely generated groupsfundamental groupsfree groupssolvable subgroupsouter automorphismsvirtually Abelian groupsword metricstranslation lengths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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