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COUNTING CONJUGACY CLASSES IN $\text{Out}(F_{N})$

Part of: Dynamical systems with hyperbolic behavior Special aspects of infinite or finite groups Low-dimensional topology Topological dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2018

MICHAEL HULL Open the ORCID record for MICHAEL HULL [Opens in a new window]  and
ILYA KAPOVICH Open the ORCID record for ILYA KAPOVICH [Opens in a new window]
MICHAEL HULL
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Box 118105, Gainesville, FL 32611-8105, USA email mbhull@ufl.edu
ILYA KAPOVICH*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1409 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA email kapovich@math.uiuc.edu
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✉ kapovich@math.uiuc.edu
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Abstract

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We show that if a finitely generated group $G$ has a nonelementary WPD action on a hyperbolic metric space $X$ , then the number of $G$ -conjugacy classes of $X$ -loxodromic elements of $G$ coming from a ball of radius $R$ in the Cayley graph of $G$ grows exponentially in $R$ . As an application we prove that for $N\geq 3$ the number of distinct $\text{Out}(F_{N})$ -conjugacy classes of fully irreducible elements $\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}$ from an $R$ -ball in the Cayley graph of $\text{Out}(F_{N})$ with $\log \unicode[STIX]{x1D706}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D719})$ of the order of $R$ grows exponentially in $R$ .

Keywords

free group automorphismsstretch factorsloxodromic elements

MSC classification

Primary: 20F65: Geometric group theory
Secondary: 57M15: Relations with graph theory 37B05: Transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, etc.) 37D40: Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.)

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 97 , Issue 3 , June 2018 , pp. 412 - 421
Copyright
© 2018 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

Footnotes

The second author was supported by the individual NSF grants DMS-1405146 and DMS-1710868. Both authors acknowledge the support of the conference grant DMS-1719710 ‘Conference on Groups and Computation’.

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