Finite groups of untwisted outer automorphisms of RAAGs

DOI10.2140/AGT.2025.25.2413MaRDI QIDQ6936502zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Corey Bregman, Ruth Charney, Karen Vogtmann

Publication date 29 August 2025

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/AGT.2025.25.2413

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupouter automorphismsRAAGright-angled Artin groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Review text

The paper under review considers right-angled Artin groups (RAAGs). Recall that a right-angled Artin group is a finitely generated group whose only defining relations are that some of the generators commute. For general background on RAAGs, see the survey by \textit{R. Charney} [Geom. Dedicata 125, 141--158 (2007; Zbl 1152.20031)].\N\NLet \(A_{\Gamma}\) be a right-angled Artin group. The subgroup \(U^{0}(A_{\Gamma})\) of \(\mathrm{Out}(A_{\Gamma})\), generated by Whitehead automorphisms and inversions, acts properly and cocompactly on a contractible space \(K_{\Gamma}\). The group \(A_{\Gamma}\) was studied by [\textit{R. Charney} et al., Geom. Topol. 21, No. 2, 1131--1178 (2017; Zbl 1405.20028)].\N\NThe paper shows that any finite subgroup of \(U^{0}(A_{\Gamma})\) fixes a point of \(K_{\Gamma}\). This generalizes the fact that any finite subgroup of \(\mathrm{Out}(F_n)\) fixes a point of outer space and implies that there are only finitely many conjugacy classes of finite subgroups in \(U^{0}(A_{\Gamma})\).

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