Generic uniqueness of the artery in the Handel–Mosher axis bundle

Let FrF_r be a free group, let Out(Fr)\operatorname{Out}(F_r) be its outer automorphism group, and let φOut(Fr)\varphi\in\operatorname{Out}(F_r) have axis bundle Aφ\mathcal{A}_\varphi. A reasonable random walk on Out(Fr)\operatorname{Out}(F_r) is a random walk satisfying the hypotheses implicit in the source.

Generic uniqueness conjecture. For a reasonable random walk on Out(Fr)\operatorname{Out}(F_r), having that Aφ\mathcal{A}_\varphi has a unique artery is generic.

The claim proposes that the unique-artery property is typical for random walks, consistent with the authors' observation that nongeometric fully irreducible elements are generic in relevant random-walk settings. The precise meaning of “reasonable” and the status of this expectation are not established in the supplied text.

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Catherine Eva Pfaff and Chi Cheuk Tsang, “A "cubist" decomposition of the Handel-Mosher axis bundle”, arXiv:2503.16360 (2025).

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