Algebraic & Geometric Topology Volume 25, issue 7 (2025)

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Geometry of free extensions of free groups via automorphisms with fixed points on the complex of free factors

Pritam Ghosh and Funda Gültepe

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 25 (2025) 4357–4389

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2025.25.4357

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