Classification of Free Group Automorphisms

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Shane Scott – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Justin Lanier
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.