The visual boundary of hyperbolic free-by-cyclic groups

Yael Algom-Kfir, Arnaud Hilion, Emily Stark

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Abstract

Let ϕ be an atoroidal outer automorphism of the free group Fn. We study the Gromov boundary of the hyperbolic group Gϕ = Fnϕ ℤ.Using the Cannon-Thurston map, we explicitly describe a family of embeddings of the complete bipartite graph K3,3 into the boundary of the free-by-cyclic group. To do so, we define the directional Whitehead graph and use it to relate the topology of the boundary to the structure of the Rips Machine associated to a fully irreducible outer automorphism of the free group. In particular, we prove that an indecomposable Fn-tree is Levitt type if and only if one of its directional Whitehead graphs contains more than one edge. As an application, we obtain a new proof of Kapovich-Kleiner’s theorem [KK00] that ∂Gϕ is homeomorphic to the Menger curve if the automorphism is atoroidal and fully irreducible.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)501-538
Number of pages38
JournalIsrael Journal of Mathematics
Volume244
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2021

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Mathematics

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