Connectivity of the Gromov Boundary of the Free Factor Complex
Annales Henri Lebesgue, Volume 6 (2023), pp. 1291-1348.

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Keywords free factor complex, Gromov boundary, path-connectivity

Abstract

We show that in large enough rank, the Gromov boundary of the free factor complex is path connected and locally path connected.


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