Dimension invariants of outer automorphism groups

DOI10.4171/GGD/435MaRDI QIDQ1691969zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Dieter Degrijse, Juan Souto

Publication date 25 January 2018

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04354

zbMATH Keywords

geometric dimension for proper actionsouter automorphism groupsvirtual cohomological dimension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Homological methods in group theory (20J05)

Abstract: The geometric dimension for proper actions $underlinemathrmgd(G)$ of a group $G$ is the minimal dimension of a classifying space for proper actions $underlineEG$. We construct for every integer $rgeq1$, an example of a virtually torsion-free Gromov-hyperbolic group $G$ such that for every group $Gamma$ which contains $G$ as a finite index normal subgroup, the virtual cohomological dimension $mathrmvcd(Gamma)$ of $Gamma$ equals $underlinemathrmgd(Gamma)$ but such that the outer automorphism group $mathrmOut(G)$ is virtually torsion-free, admits a cocompact model for $underlineEmathrmOut(G)$ but nonetheless has $mathrmvcd(mathrmOut(G))leunderlinemathrmgd(mathrmOut(G))-r$.

Review text

Summary: The geometric dimension for proper actions \(\underline{\mathrm{gd}}(G)\) of a group \(G\) is the minimal dimension of a classifying space for proper actions \(\underline{E}G\). We construct for every integer \(r\geq1\), an example of a virtually torsion-free Gromov-hyperbolic group \(G\) such that for every group \(\Gamma\) which contains \(G\) as a finite index normal subgroup, the virtual cohomological dimension \(\mathrm{vcd}(\Gamma)\) of \(\Gamma\) equals \(\underline{\mathrm{gd}}(\Gamma)\) but such that the outer automorphism group \(\mathrm{Out}(G)\) is virtually torsion-free, admits a cocompact model for \(\underline{E}\,\mathrm{Out}(G)\) but nonetheless has \(\mathrm{vcd}(\mathrm{Out}(G))\leq\underline{\mathrm{gd}}(\mathrm{Out}(G))-r\).

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