Jean Pierre Mutanguha (IAS)
Date
Friday November 25, 20222:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Location
Jeffery Hall, Room 234Math & Stats Department Colloquium
Friday, November 25th, 2022
Time: 2:30 p.m. Place: Jeffery Hall, Room 234
Speaker: Jean Pierre Mutanguha (IAS)
Title: Finding relative immersions of free groups
Abstract: Given an injective endomorphism of a free group, what is the "best" way to represent it so as to read off its dynamical properties? For automorphisms, the prevailing answer since the 1990s has been train tracks and their variations. In this talk, I answer this question for nonsurjective endomorphisms. To some degree, it turns out nonsurjectivity greatly simplifies matters --- a result that I found rather surprising. I proved that all injective endomorphisms can be uniquely represented by certain kinds of expanding immersions on graphs; a bit paradoxically, this representation is trivial when the endomorphism is an automorphism.