The complex of non-separating embedded spheres

DOI10.1216/RMJ-2014-44-6-2029MaRDI QIDQ2514554zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Suhas Pandit

Publication date 3 February 2015

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0338, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1422885106

zbMATH Keywords

outer automorphisms of free groupsouter spacessphere complexspine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: For n >2, we shall show that the group Aut(NS(M)) of simplicial automorphisms of the complex NS(M) of non-separating embedded spheres in the manifold M,connected sum of n copies of S^2 X S^1, isomorphic to the group Out(F_n) of outer automorphisms of the free group F_n, where $F_n$ is identified with the fundamental group of M up to conjugacy of the base point in M.

Review text

Let \(M\) be the \(3\)-manifold \(\sharp_n S^2 \times S^1\). An embedded sphere \(S\) in \(M\) is called \textit{non-separating} if \(M-S\) is connected. Let \(NS(M)\) be the complex of non-separating embedded spheres in \(M\). The group \(Out(F_n)\) acts on \(NS(M)\). Let \(Aut(NS(M))\) denote the group of simplicial automorphisms of \(NS(M)\). The main result of the article under review states that \(Aut(NS(M))\) is isomorphic to \(Out(F_n)\). The proof of the result relies on an embedded copy inside \(NS(M)\) of the spine \(K_n\) of the reduced outer space \(cv_n\) and a lemma that shows that the spine \(K_n\) is invariant under the group \(Aut(NS(M))\). The ideas and techniques of the present paper are motivated by the paper [\textit{J. Aramayona} and \textit{J. Souto}, Mich. Math. J. 60, No. 3, 483--493 (2011; Zbl 1242.05117)] where the authors have proved a similar result for the sphere complex \(S(M)\) associated to \(M\).

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