{ "id": "1012.3267", "version": "v2", "published": "2010-12-15T10:19:55.000Z", "updated": "2012-02-28T23:15:04.000Z", "title": "Explicit computation of the index of a positive outer automorphism of the free group", "authors": [ "Yann Jullian" ], "comment": "31 pages, 2 figures. v2: small error in steps (3.1.3) and (3.1.4) of the algorithm corrected. Paragraph and examples added in section 3.2.1", "categories": [ "math.GR", "math.DS" ], "abstract": "We give an algorithm for finding the index of a positive outer automorphism of the free group, and prove the algorithm exits in a finite time.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2012-02-28T23:15:04.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20E05", "20D45", "37B10", "20F65", "20E08" ], "keywords": [ "positive outer automorphism", "free group", "explicit computation", "algorithm exits" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 31, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2010arXiv1012.3267J" } } }