Outer automorphism groups of free groups: linear and free representations.

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDS077MaRDI QIDQ2840174zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dawid Kielak

Publication date 17 July 2013

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1624

zbMATH Keywords

free groupsouter automorphism groupshomomorphismslinear representationsfree representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Geometric group theory (20F65) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: We study the existence of homomorphisms between Out(F_n) and Out(F_m) for n > 5 and m < n(n-1)/2, and conclude that if m is not equal to n then each such homomorphism factors through the finite group of order 2. In particular this provides an answer to a question of Bogopol'skii and Puga. In the course of the argument linear representations of Out(F_n) in dimension less than n(n+1)/2 over fields of characteristic zero are completely classified. It is shown that each such representation has to factor through the natural projection from Out(F_n) to GL(n,Z) coming from the action of Out(F_n) on the abelianisation of F_n. We obtain similar results about linear representation theory of Out(F_4) and Out(F_5).

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