Vastness properties of automorphism groups of RAAGs

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Abstract: Outer automorphism groups of RAAGs, denoted Out(AGamma), interpolate between Out(Fn) and GLn(mathbbZ). We consider several vastness properties for which Out(Fn) behaves very differently from GLn(mathbbZ): virtually mapping onto all finite groups, SQ-universality, virtually having an infinite dimensional space of homogeneous quasimorphisms, and not being boundedly generated. We give a neccessary and sufficient condition in terms of the defining graph Gamma for each of these properties to hold. Notably, the condition for all four properties is the same, meaning Out(AGamma) will either satisfy all four, or none. In proving this result, we describe conditions on Gamma that imply Out(AGamma) is large. Techniques used in this work are then applied to the case of McCool groups, defined as subgroups of Out(Fn) that preserve a given family of conjugacy classes. In particular we show that any McCool group that is not virtually abelian virtually maps onto all finite groups, is SQ-universal, is not boundedly generated, and has a finite index subgroup whose space of homogeneous quasimorphisms is infinite dimensional.



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