Contractibility of fixed point sets of auter space

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(01)00074-8MaRDI QIDQ1602956zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Craig A. Jensen

Publication date 24 June 2002

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0112189

zbMATH Keywords

auter spaceautomorphism groups of free groupscohomologycontractible complexesouter automorphism groupsouter space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Geometric group theory (20F65) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We show that for every finite subgroup $G$ of $Aut(F_n)$, the fixed point subcomplex $X_n^G$ is contractible, where $F_n$ is the free group on $n$ letters and $X_n$ is the spine of ``auter space constructed by Hatcher and Vogtmann. In more categorical language, $X_n=underlineEAut(F_n)$. This is useful because it allows one to compute the cohomology of normalizers or centralizers of finite subgroups of $Aut(F_n)$ based on their actions on fixed point subcomplexes. The techniques used to prove it are largely those of Krstic and Vogtmann, who in turn used techniques similar to Culler and Vogtmann.

Review text

By a construction of \textit{A. Hatcher} and \textit{K. Vogtmann} [J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 58, No. 3, 633-655 (1998; Zbl 0922.57001)], the automorphism group \(\Aut(F_n)\) of a free group \(F_n\) of rank \(n\) acts with finite stabilizers on a contractible space \(X_n\) (a spine of ``auter space), obtained as the geometric realization of a suitable poset of equivalence classes of marked graphs with fundamental group \(F_n\). The main result of the present paper states that, for any finite subgroup \(G\) of \(\Aut(F_n)\), the fixed point subcomplex \(X_n^G\) of \(G\) is contractible. The proof generalizes methods of an analogous result by \textit{S. Krstic} and \textit{K. Vogtmann} [Comment. Math. Helv. 68, No. 2, 216-262 (1993; Zbl 0805.20030)] for the action of the outer automorphism group \(\text{Out}(F_n)\) on ``outer space (obtained also by \textit{T. White} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 118, No. 3, 681-688 (1993; Zbl 0798.20021)]). The result is motivated by the fact that it allows one to compute the cohomology of normalizers or centralizers of finite subgroups of \(\Aut(F_n)\) based on their actions on fixed point subcomplexes (for example in a paper by the author [in J. Pure Appl. Algebra 158, No. 1, 41-81 (2001; Zbl 0977.20042)]).

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