Embeddings of automorphism groups of free groups into automorphism groups of affine algebraic varieties

DOI10.1134/S0081543823010121MaRDI QIDQ6156024zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 9 June 2023

Published in Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13072

zbMATH Keywords

affine algebraic varietybraid groupCremona groupfree group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on affine varieties (14R20) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36)

Abstract: A new infinite series of rational affine algebraic varieties is constructed whose automorphism group contains the automorphism group $mAut(F_n)$ of the free group $F_n$ of rank $n$. The automorphism groups of such varieties are nonlinear and contain the braid group $B_n$ on $n$ strands for $ngeqslant3$, and are nonamenable for $ngeqslant2$. As an application, it is proved that for $ngeqslant3$, every Cremona group of rank $geqslant3n-1$ contains the groups $mAut(F_n)$ and $B_n$. This bound is 1 better than the one published earlier by the author; with respect to $B_n$ the order of its growth rate is one less than that of the bound following from the paper by D. Krammer. The basis of the construction are triplets $(G,R,n)$, where $G$ is a connected semisimple algebraic group and $R$ is a closed subgroup of its maximal torus.

Review text

Let \(n\) be a positive integer and let \(F_{n}\) be the free group of rank \(n\). In this paper, the author constructs a new infinite series of rational affine algebraic varieties such that their automorphism groups contain \(\mathrm{Aut}(F_{n})\) and the braid group \(B_{n}\) on \(n\) strands. The automorphism groups of such varieties are nonlinear for \(n \geq 3\) and are nonamenable for \(n \geq 2\). As an application, the author proves that every Cremona group of rank \( \geq 3n-1\) contains \(\mathrm{Aut}(F_{n})\) and \(B_{n}\).

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