Classification of Free Group Automorphisms
- Series
- Geometry Topology Student Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, March 15, 2017 - 14:05 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Shane Scott – Georgia Tech
Much of what is known about automorphisms of free groups is given by analogy to results on mapping class groups. One desirable result is the celebrated Nielson-Thurston classification of the mapping class group into reducible, periodic, or pseudo Anosov homeomorphisms. We will discuss attempts at analogous results for free group automorphisms.