Automorphisms of hyperbolic groups and graphs of groups. (Q2572564)

The author describes the outer automorphism group \(\text{Out}(G)\) of a one-ended word hyperbolic group \(G\). He provides a product structure for which \(\text{Out}(G)\) is virtually a direct product of mapping class groups and a free Abelian group. He also shows a necessary and sufficient condition for the outer automorphism group \(\text{Out}(G)\) to be infinite, when \(G\) is a one-ended hyperbolic group, and that there are only finitely many conjugacy classes of torsion elements in \(\text{Out}(G)\) and \(\Aut(G)\), when \(G\) is a torsion-free hyperbolic group. Moreover, for a finite graph \(\Gamma\) of group decomposition of an arbitrary group \(G\) the author describes the group of automorphisms of \(G\) preserving \(\Gamma\), by comparing it to direct products of suitably defined mapping class groups of vertex groups.