Geometry & Topology Volume 13, issue 3 (2009)

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Abelian subgroups of $\mathsf{Out}(F_n)$

Mark Feighn and Michael Handel

Geometry & Topology 13 (2009) 1657–1727

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2009.13.1657

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