On the Hausdorff dimension and attracting laminations for fully irreducible automorphisms of free groups
Abstract
Motivated by a classic theorem of Birman and Series about the set of complete simple geodesics on a hyperbolic surface, we study the Hausdorff dimension of the set of endpoints in $\partial F_r$ of some abstract algebraic laminations associated with free group automorphisms. For a fully irreducible $\phi\in\Out(F_r)$ we show that the set of endpoints $\mathcal E_{L_\phi}\subseteq \partial F_r$ of the attracting lamination $L_\phi$ of $\phi$ has Hausdorff dimension $0$ for any tree $T\in\cvr$ and any visual metric on the boundary $\partial T=\partial F_r$. If $\phi$ is both atoroidal and fully irreducible, we deduce the same conclusion for the set of endpoints of the ending lamination $\Lambda_\phi$ of $\phi$ that gets collapsed by the Cannon-Thurston map $\partial F_r\to \partial G_\phi$ for the associated free-by-cyclic group $G_\phi=F_r\rtimes_\phi\mathbb Z$.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 2024
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2410.02058
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2410.02058
- Bibcode:
- 2024arXiv241002058K
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Group Theory;
- Mathematics - Dynamical Systems;
- Mathematics - Geometric Topology;
- Primary 20F65;
- Secondary 20F10;
- 20F67;
- 37B10;
- 37D99;
- 57M99
- E-Print:
- 18 pages, no figures