By using a notion of a geometric Dehn twist in
, we prove that when
projections of two
–splittings
to the free factor complex are far enough from each other in the free
factor complex, Dehn twist automorphisms corresponding to the
–splittings generate
a free group of rank
.
Moreover, every element from this free group either is conjugate to
a power of one of the Dehn twists or is a fully irreducible outer
automorphism of the free group. We also prove that, when the projections
of –splittings
are sufficiently far away from each other in the intersection graph, the group
generated by the Dehn twists has automorphisms that are either conjugate to Dehn
twists or atoroidal fully irreducible.
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