Random length-spectrum rigidity for free groups
Author:
Ilya Kapovich
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 140 (2012), 1549-1560
MSC (2010):
Primary 20Fxx; Secondary 57Mxx, 37Bxx, 37Dxx
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September 9, 2011
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Abstract: We say that a subset is spectrally rigid if whenever are points of the (unprojectivized) outer space such that for every , then in . It is well known that itself is spectrally rigid; it also follows from the result of Smillie and Vogtmann that there does not exist a finite spectrally rigid subset of . We prove that if is a free basis of (where ), then almost every trajectory of a non-backtracking simple random walk on with respect to is a spectrally rigid subset of .
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Ilya Kapovich
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1409 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801
Email:
kapovich@math.uiuc.edu
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2011-11030-X
PII:
S 0002-9939(2011)11030-X
Received by editor(s):
May 21, 2010
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
January 24, 2011
Posted:
September 9, 2011
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The author was supported by NSF grant DMS-0904200
Communicated by:
Alexander N. Dranishnikov
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