Splittings of mapping tori of free group automorphisms

2001/06/30 by Peter Brinkmann
Mathematics · #math.GR #msc:37E30

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published as Geometriae Dedicata 93:191-203, 2002 · 16 pages, 6 figures, revised according to referee's suggestions To appear in Geom. Dedicata

arxiv created 2002/01/10 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We present necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a splitting over ℤ of the mapping torus M_ϕ=F\rtimes ℤ of a free group automorphism ϕ.

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