Linear representations of the automorphism group of a free group.

DOI10.1007/S00039-009-0702-2zbMATH Open1175.20028arXivmath/0606182OpenAlexW2039775250MaRDI QIDQ1005074FDOQ1005074

Alexander Lubotzky, Fritz Grunewald

Publication date: 13 March 2009

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $F_n$ be the free group on $nge2$ elements and $A(F_n)$ its group of automorphisms. In this paper we present a rich collection of linear representations of $A(F_n)$ arising through the action of finite index subgroups of it on relation modules of finite quotient groups of $F_n$. We show (under certain conditions) that the images of our representations are arithmetic groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606182

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groups of free groupslinear representationsrelation modules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05)

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