The Andreadakis problem for the McCool groups

DOI10.1090/PROC/17730MaRDI QIDQ7320210zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jacques Darné, Naoya Enomoto, Takao Satoh

Publication date 27 August 2026

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/PROC/17730

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Derived series, central series, and generalizations for groups (20F14) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28)

Review text

The Andreadakis problem asks, for a group \(G\) and its automorphism group \(\mathrm{Aut}(G)\), whether the lower central series \(\Gamma_k\) of the IA-automorphism subgroup coincides with the Andreadakis-Johnson filtration \(\mathcal{A}_k\). The paper proves that the McCool group \(\mathrm{P}\Sigma_n\) of basis-conjugating automorphisms of the free group \(F_n\) does not satisfy this equality for any \(n \geq 3\): the quotient \((\mathcal{A}_7(F_n) \cap \mathrm{P}\Sigma_n)/\Gamma_7(\mathrm{P}\Sigma_n)\) has a central subgroup which is free abelian of rank \(\binom{n}{3}\). As a consequence, the Andreadakis problem for \(\mathrm{P}\Sigma_n\) does not stabilize, in contrast to the free group case.\N\NExplicit computer computations of \(\kappa_k(\mathrm{P}\Sigma_3) \otimes \mathbb{Q}\) for \(k \leq 9\) are also given.

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