A Birman exact sequence for Aut(F_n)

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: A Birman exact sequence for Aut(F_n)
المؤلفون: Day, Matthew B., Putman, Andrew
المصدر: Adv. Math. 231 (2012), 243-275
سنة النشر: 2011
المجموعة: Mathematics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mathematics - Geometric Topology, Mathematics - Group Theory
الوصف: The Birman exact sequence describes the effect on the mapping class group of a surface with boundary of gluing discs to the boundary components. We construct an analogous exact sequence for the automorphism group of a free group. For the mapping class group, the kernel of the Birman exact sequence is a surface braid group. We prove that in the context of the automorphism group of a free group, the natural kernel is finitely generated. However, it is not finitely presentable; indeed, we prove that its second rational homology group has infinite rank by constructing an explicit infinite collection of linearly independent abelian cycles. We also determine the abelianization of our kernel and build a simple infinite presentation for it. The key to many of our proofs are several new generalizations of the Johnson homomorphisms.
Comment: 37 pages, serious revision. To appear in Adv. Math
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2012.04.024
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2371
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1104.2371
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1016/j.aim.2012.04.024