Twisted homological stability for extensions and automorphism groups of free nilpotent groups

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Abstract: We prove twisted homological stability with polynomial coefficients for automorphism groups of free nilpotent groups of any given class. These groups interpolate between two extremes for which homological stability was known before, the general linear groups over the integers and the automorphism groups of free groups. The proof presented here uses a general result that applies to arbitrary extensions of groups, and that has other applications as well.


The author considers homological stability for sequences of groups that come with a filtration. If one knows homological stability for filter quotients, then the task becomes to compare Hochschild-Serre spectral sequences. For example, fix \(c\geq1\), and let \(N^c_r\) denote the quotient of the free group on \(r\) generators by the \(c\)-th member of its lower central series. Then it is shown that the sequence \(\{\mathrm{Aut}(N^c_r)\}_{r\geq1}\) satisfies twisted homological stability with polynomial coefficients in the sense of \textit{W. G. Dwyer} [Ann. Math. (2) 111, 239--251 (1980; Zbl 0404.18012)].











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