Dynamics and (F_N) actions on group presentations and representations.

zbMATH Open1266.20045arXiv1109.0155MaRDI QIDQ2908726FDOQ2908726

Alexander Lubotzky

Publication date: 5 September 2012

Abstract: Several different areas of group theory, topology and geometry have led to the study of the action of Aut(Fn) | the automorphism group of the free group on n generators | on Hom(Fn;G) when G is either finite,compact or simple Lie group. In this survey, we describe these topics and results, with special emphasis on some similarities and with an effort to give a somewhat uniform treatment. This perspective sometimes suggests new questions, conjectures and methods borrowed from one area to another.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0155

zbMATH Keywords

group actionsprofinite completionsautomorphism groups of free groupsfundamental groups of closed surfacessemisimple compact Lie groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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• Geometry of Kleinian groups and its applications
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• Primitive stable representations of free Kleinian groups
• On transitivity and (non)amenability of \(\Aut F_n\) actions on group presentations.
• Nielsen equivalence in Gupta-Sidki groups
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• Discrete primitive-stable representations with large rank surplus
• Arithmetic quotients of the mapping class group
• Dynamics of actions of automorphisms of discrete groups \(G\) on \(\mathrm{Sub}_G\) and applications to lattices in Lie groups

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