Topological dimension of the boundaries of some hyperbolic Out(Fn)-graphs
Presenter
August 22, 2016
Keywords:
- geometric group theory
- hyperbolic groups
- outer automorphism groups
- dimension theory
- mapping class groups
- Gromov boundary
MSC:
- 20F65
- 20F67
- 20F05
- 20F24
- 20Fxx
- 20-xx
- 20D45
Abstract
A theorem of Bestvina-Bromberg-Fujiwara asserts that the mapping class group of a hyperbolic surface of finite type has finite asymptotic dimension; its proof relies on an earlier result of Bell-Fujiwara stating that the curve complex has finite asymptotic dimension. The analogous statements are still open for Out(Fn). In joint work with Mladen Bestvina and Ric Wade, we give a first hint towards this, by obtaining a bound (linear in the rank n) on the topological dimension of the Gromov boundary of the graph of free factors of Fn (as well as some other hyperbolic Out(Fn)-graphs).