Chen ranks and resonance varieties of the upper McCool groups

DOI10.1016/J.AAM.2019.07.004MaRDI QIDQ2326909zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexander I. Suciu, He Wang

Publication date 10 October 2019

Published in Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06006

zbMATH Keywords

Chen ranksinfinitesimal Alexander invariantMcCool and upper McCool groupsresonance schemeresonance varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gröbner bases; other bases for ideals and modules (e.g., Janet and border bases) (13P10) Determinantal varieties (14M12) Graded Lie (super)algebras (17B70) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Derived series, central series, and generalizations for groups (20F14) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Homological methods in group theory (20J05)

Abstract: The group of basis-conjugating automorphisms of the free group of rank $n$, also known as the McCool group or the welded braid group $PSigm{a}_n$, contains a much-studied subgroup, called the upper McCool group $PSigm{a}_n^{+}$. Starting from the cohomology ring of $PSigm{a}_n^{+}$, we find, by means of a Gr"obner basis computation, a simple presentation for the infinitesimal Alexander invariant of this group, from which we determine the resonance varieties and the Chen ranks of the upper McCool groups. These computations reveal that, unlike for the pure braid group $P_n$ and the full McCool group $PSigm{a}_n$, the Chen ranks conjecture does not hold for $PSigm{a}_n^{+}$, for any $nge4$. Consequently, $PSigm{a}_n^{+}$ is not isomorphic to $P_n$ in that range, thus answering a question of Cohen, Pakianathan, Vershinin, and Wu. We also determine the scheme structure of the resonance varieties $mathcal{R}_1(PSigm{a}_n^{+})$, and show that these schemes are not reduced for $ngeq4$.

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