McCool groups of toral relatively hyperbolic groups

DOI10.2140/AGT.2015.15.3485MaRDI QIDQ907778zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vincent Guirardel, Gilbert Levitt

Publication date 26 January 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.0418

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupclassifying spaceMcCool groupfiniteness conditiontoral relatively hyperbolic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) General structure theorems for groups (20E34)

Abstract: The outer automorphism group Out(G) of a group G acts on the set of conjugacy classes of elements of G. McCool proved that the stabilizer $Mc(c_1,\mathrm{...},c_n)$ of a finite set of conjugacy classes is finitely presented when G is free. More generally, we consider the group $Mc(H_1,\mathrm{...},H_n)$ of outer automorphisms $Phi$ of G acting trivially on a family of subgroups $H_i$, in the sense that $Phi$ has representatives $alph{a}_i$ with $alph{a}_i$ equal to the identity on $H_i$. When G is a toral relatively hyperbolic group, we show that these two definitions lead to the same subgroups of Out(G), which we call "McCool groups" of G. We prove that such McCool groups are of type VF (some finite index subgroup has a finite classifying space). Being of type VF also holds for the group of automorphisms of G preserving a splitting of G over abelian groups. We show that McCool groups satisfy a uniform chain condition: there is a bound, depending only on G, for the length of a strictly decreasing sequence of McCool groups of G. Similarly, fixed subgroups of automorphisms of G satisfy a uniform chain condition.

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