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Examples of amalgamated free products and coupling rigidity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2012

YOSHIKATA KIDA*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University, 606-8502 Kyoto, Japan (email: [email protected])

Abstract

We present amalgamated free products satisfying coupling rigidity with respect to the automorphism group of the associated Bass–Serre tree. As an application, we obtain orbit equivalence rigidity for amalgamated free products of mapping class groups.

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Research Article
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©2012 Cambridge University Press

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