Assembling homology classes in automorphism groups of free groups

DOI10.4171/CMH/402zbMATH Open1396.20057arXiv1501.02351OpenAlexW2167699131MaRDI QIDQ2374419FDOQ2374419

Authors: James Conant, Martin Kassabov, Karen Vogtmann, Allen Hatcher 

Publication date: 15 December 2016

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The observation that a graph of rank $n$ can be assembled from graphs of smaller rank $k$ with $s$ leaves by pairing the leaves together leads to a process for assembling homology classes for $Out(F_n)$ and $Aut(F_n)$ from classes for groups $Gamm{a}_{k,s}$, where the $Gamm{a}_{k,s}$ generalize $Out(F_k)=Gamm{a}_{k,0}$ and $Aut(F_k)=Gamm{a}_{k,1}$. The symmetric group $Sigm{a}_s$ acts on $H_{\ast }(Gamm{a}_{k,s})$ by permuting leaves, and for trivial rational coefficients we compute the $Sigm{a}_s$-module structure on $H_{\ast }(Gamm{a}_{k,s})$ completely for $kleq2$. Assembling these classes then produces all the known nontrivial rational homology classes for $Aut(F_n)$ and $Out(F_n)$ with the possible exception of classes for $n=7$ recently discovered by L. Bartholdi. It also produces an enormous number of candidates for other nontrivial classes, some old and some new, but we limit the number of these which can be nontrivial using the representation theory of symmetric groups. We gain new insight into some of the most promising candidates by finding small subgroups of $Aut(F_n)$ and $Out(F_n)$ which support them and by finding geometric representations for the candidate classes as maps of closed manifolds into the moduli space of graphs. Finally, our results have implications for the homology of the Lie algebra of symplectic derivations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.02351

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zbMATH Keywords

cohomologyautomorphisms of free groupsmoduli spaces of graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Cohomology of groups (20J06)

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