A description of \(\operatorname{Aut} (d V_n)\) and \(\operatorname{Out} (d V_n)\) using transducers (Q2694835)

Summary: The groups \(d V_n\) are an infinite family of groups, first introduced by C. Martínez-Pérez, F. Matucci and B. E. A. Nucinkis, which includes both the Higman-Thompson groups \(V_n (= 1 V_n)\) and the Brin-Thompson groups \(n V(= n V_2)\). A description of the groups \(\operatorname{Aut} (G_{n, r})\) (including the groups \(G_{n, 1} = V_n\)) has previously been given by C. Bleak, P. Cameron, Y. Maissel, A. Navas, and F. Olukoya. Their description uses the transducer representations of homeomorphisms of Cantor space introduced in a paper of R. I. Grigorchuk, V. V. Nekrashevich, and V. I. Sushchanskii, together with a theorem of M. Rubin. We generalise the transducers of the latter paper and make use of these transducers to give a description of \(\operatorname{Aut} (d V_n)\) which extends the description of \(\operatorname{Aut} (1 V_n)\) given in the former paper. We make use of this description to show that \(\operatorname{Out} (d V_2) \cong \operatorname{Out} (V_2) \wr S_d\), and more generally give a natural embedding of \(\operatorname{Out} (d V_n)\) into \(\operatorname{Out} (G_{n, n - 1}) \wr S_d\).