On the stable cohomology of the IA-automorphism groups of free groups

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/91889188MaRDI QIDQ6979204zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kazuo Habiro

Publication date 26 May 2025

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

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/journals/journal-of-the-mathematical-society-of-japan/volume-77/issue-2/On-the-stable-cohomology-of-the-operatornameIA-automorphism-groups-of/10.2969/jmsj/91889188.full

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{IA}\)-automorphism group of free groupautomorphism group of free groupgeneral linear groupgroup cohomologyrepresentation stabilityTorelli group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Cohomology of groups (20J06)

Review text

Let \(\mathrm{IA}_n\) denote the group of automorphisms of the free group \(F_n\) acting trivially on its abelianization. The group \(\mathrm{IA}_n\) plays a central role in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology, with deep connections to Johnson filtrations, Torelli groups and representation stability.\N\NThe article under review studies the stable cohomology ring of the sequence \((\mathrm{IA}_n)\) for \(n \geq 2\). The main result is a complete description of the algebraic structure of \(H^*(\mathrm{IA}_\infty, \mathbb{Q})\), the stable rational cohomology of \(\mathrm{IA}_n\), in terms of generators and relations. This is achieved by developing a new model for the homotopy type of the classifying space \(B\mathrm{IA}_n\) and by analyzing the representation-theoretic structure of the cohomology groups as \(\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{Q})\)-modules. In particular, the authors compute explicitly the stable part of \(H^k(\mathrm{IA}_n,\mathbb{Q})\) for small \(k\) and identify the subalgebra generated by the Johnson homomorphism in stable cohomology, see [\textit{D. Johnson}, Math. Ann. 249, 225--242 (1980; Zbl 0409.57009)].\N\NThe proofs rely on techniques from homological algebra, representation stability and the theory of Dwyer-Weiss-Williams assembly maps. Several new results are obtained on the behavior of the cohomology under stabilization maps and on the structure of secondary characteristic classes. The paper concludes with a number of open questions related to the unstable cohomology and to possible connections with graph complexes.

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