Título: Quadratic Isoperimetric Inequality For Mapping Tori Of Free Group Automorphisms, | ||
Autor: Bridson Martin R/ Groves Daniel | Precio: $935.61 | |
Editorial: American Mathematical Society | Año: 2009 | |
Tema: Matematicas, Textos, Teorias | Edición: 1ª | |
Sinopsis | ISBN: 9780821846315 | |
The authors prove that if F is a finitely generated free group and \phi is an automorphism of F then F\rtimes_\phi\mathbb Z satisfies a quadratic isoperimetric inequality.
The authors' proof of this theorem rests on a direct study of the geometry of van Kampen diagrams over the natural presentations of free-by-cylic groups. The main focus of this study is on the dynamics of the time flow of t-corridors, where t is the generator of the \mathbb Z factor in F\rtimes_\phi\mathbb Z and a t-corridor is a chain of 2-cells extending across a van Kampen diagram with adjacent 2-cells abutting along an edge labelled t. The authors prove that the length of t-corridors in any least-area diagram is bounded by a constant times the perimeter of the diagram, where the constant depends only on \phi. The authors' proof that such a constant exists involves a detailed analysis of the ways in which the length of a word $w\in F can grow and shrink as one replaces w by a sequence of words w_m, where w_m is obtained from \phi(w_{m-1}) by various cancellation processes. In order to make this analysis feasible, the authors develop a refinement of the improved relative train track technology due to Bestvina, Feighn and Handel. Table of Contents Positive automorphisms Train tracks and the beaded decomposition The General Case Bibliography Index |