The Free Factor Complex and the Dualizing Module for the Automorphism Group of a Free Group

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNAC330MaRDI QIDQ6182628zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeremy Miller, Sam Nariman, Andrew Putman

Publication date 25 January 2024

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03102

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupdualizing modulefree grouprational duality group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Duality in applied homological algebra and category theory (aspects of algebraic topology) (55U30) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: Answering a question of Hatcher-Vogtmann, we prove that the top homology group of the free factor complex is not the dualizing module for $extAut(F_n)$, at least for $n=5$.

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