Relative currents
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- by Radhika Gupta
- Conform. Geom. Dyn. 21 (2017), 319-352
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/ecgd/314
- Published electronically: October 18, 2017
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Abstract:
In this paper we define currents relative to a free factor system. We prove that a fully irreducible outer automorphism relative to a free factor system acts with uniform north-south dynamics on a subspace of the space of projective relative currents.References
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Bibliographic Information
- Radhika Gupta
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
- Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel
- Email: radhikagup@technion.ac.il
- Received by editor(s): February 2, 2017
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 8, 2017
- Published electronically: October 18, 2017
- Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by the NSF grant of Mladen Bestvina (DMS-1607236)
- © Copyright 2017 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Conform. Geom. Dyn. 21 (2017), 319-352
- MSC (2010): Primary 20F65
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/ecgd/314
- MathSciNet review: 3713836