The minimally displaced set of an irreducible automorphism of $$F_N$$ is co-compact

Abstract

We study the minimally displaced set of irreducible automorphisms of a free group. Our main result is the co-compactness of the minimally displaced set of an irreducible automorphism with exponential growth $$\phi $$ ϕ , under the action of the centraliser $$C(\phi )$$ C ( ϕ ) . As a corollary, we get that the same holds for the action of $$ <\phi>$$ < ϕ > on $$Min(\phi )$$ M i n ( ϕ ) . Finally, we prove that the minimally displaced set of an irreducible automorphism of growth rate one consists of a single point.