The Automorphism Tower of a Free Group

DOI10.1112/S0024610799008273MaRDI QIDQ4520385zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Vladimir Tolstykh

Publication date 13 December 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9711203

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupscomplete groupsconjugacy classesdefinable setsfirst-order formulaefree groupsprimitive elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model-theoretic algebra (03C60) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28)

Abstract: We prove that the automorphism group of an arbitrary non-abelian free group is complete. It generalizes the result by J.Dyer and E.Formanek (1975) stating the completeness of automorphism group of finitely generated free groups. Using the description of involutions in automorphism groups of free groups (J. Dyer, P. Scott, 1975) we obtain a group-theoretic characterization of inner automorphisms determined by primitive elements in the automorphism group of any non-abelian free group F. It follows that the subgroup Inn(F) is characteristic in Aut(F), and hence the latter one is complete.

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