Topological complexity of basis-conjugating automorphism groups.

DOI10.2140/PJM.2008.238.233MaRDI QIDQ953155zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel C. Cohen, Goderdzi Pruidze

Publication date 14 November 2008

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1825

zbMATH Keywords

topological complexityfinitely generated free groupsbasis-conjugating automorphism groupsMcCool groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Geometric group theory (20F65) Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

Abstract: We compute the topological complexity of Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces associated to the group of automorphisms of a finitely generated free group which act by conjugation on a given basis, and to certain subgroups.

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