A Birman exact sequence for (F_n).

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2012.04.024zbMATH Open1300.20035arXiv1104.2371OpenAlexW2111091142MaRDI QIDQ436172FDOQ436172

Authors: Matthew Day, Andrew Putman 

Publication date: 30 July 2012

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Birman exact sequence describes the effect on the mapping class group of a surface with boundary of gluing discs to the boundary components. We construct an analogous exact sequence for the automorphism group of a free group. For the mapping class group, the kernel of the Birman exact sequence is a surface braid group. We prove that in the context of the automorphism group of a free group, the natural kernel is finitely generated. However, it is not finitely presentable; indeed, we prove that its second rational homology group has infinite rank by constructing an explicit infinite collection of linearly independent abelian cycles. We also determine the abelianization of our kernel and build a simple infinite presentation for it. The key to many of our proofs are several new generalizations of the Johnson homomorphisms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2371

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zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupscohomology of groupsautomorphism groups of free groupsBirman exact sequenceJohnson homomorphismsrecursive presentations of groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Geometric group theory (20F65) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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