On the automorphism group of generalized Baumslag-Solitar groups.

DOI10.2140/GT.2007.11.473zbMATH Open1143.20014arXivmath/0511083OpenAlexW2132385066MaRDI QIDQ873947FDOQ873947

Authors: Gilbert Levitt 

Publication date: 21 March 2007

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A generalized Baumslag-Solitar group (GBS group) is a finitely generated group $G$ which acts on a tree with all edge and vertex stabilizers infinite cyclic. We show that Out(G) either contains non-abelian free groups or is virtually nilpotent of class at most 2. It has torsion only at finitely many primes. One may decide algorithmically whether Out(G) is virtually nilpotent or not. If it is, one may decide whether it is virtually abelian, or finitely generated. The isomorphism problem is solvable among GBS groups with Out(G) virtually nilpotent. If $G$ is unimodular (virtually $F_{n}imesZ$), then Out(G) is commensurable with a semi-direct product $Z^{k}timesOut(H)$ with $H$ virtually free.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511083

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zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsisomorphism problemautomorphism groupsgroups acting on treesouter automorphismsfinite index subgroupsfundamental groups of graphs of groupsgeneralized Baumslag-Solitar groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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