Folding free-group automorphisms

Details Folding free-group automorphisms Folding free-group automorphisms

2011-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/1111.6794v1

Mathematics

Group Theory

12 pages, 4 figures

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We describe an algorithm that uses Stallings' folding technique to decompose an element of $Aut(F_n)$ as a product of Whitehead automorphisms (and hence as a product of Nielsen transformations.) We use this to give an alternative method of finding a finite generating set for the subgroup of $Aut(F_n)$ that fixes a subset $Y$ of the basis elements, and the subgroup that fixes each element of $Y$ up to conjugacy. We show that the intersection of this latter subgroup with $IA_n$ is also finitely generated.

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