Unbounded asymmetry of stretch factors

Abstract

A result of Handel-Mosher guarantees that the ratio of logarithms of stretch factors of any fully irreducible automorphism of the free group FN and its inverse is bounded by a constant CN. In this short note we show that this constant CN cannot be chosen independent of N.

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