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2011 Line patterns in free groups
Christopher H Cashen, Nataša Macura
Geom. Topol. 15(3): 1419-1475 (2011). DOI: 10.2140/gt.2011.15.1419

Abstract

We study line patterns in a free group by considering the topology of the decomposition space, a quotient of the boundary at infinity of the free group related to the line pattern. We show that the group of quasi-isometries preserving a line pattern in a free group acts by isometries on a related space if and only if there are no cut pairs in the decomposition space. We also give an algorithm to detect such cut pairs.

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Christopher H Cashen. Nataša Macura. "Line patterns in free groups." Geom. Topol. 15 (3) 1419 - 1475, 2011. https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2011.15.1419

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Received: 8 September 2010; Revised: 1 June 2011; Accepted: 29 June 2011; Published: 2011
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

zbMATH: 1272.20046
MathSciNet: MR2825316
Digital Object Identifier: 10.2140/gt.2011.15.1419

Subjects:
Primary: 20F65
Secondary: 20E05

Keywords: free group , line pattern , quasi-isometry , rigidity , Whitehead graph , Whitehead's algorithm

Rights: Copyright © 2011 Mathematical Sciences Publishers

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