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

cohomologyouter automorphism groupsautomorphism groups of free groupsouter spacecontractible complexesauter 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.

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