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Actions of higher-rank lattices on free groups

Group Theory 2011-04-14 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

If GG is a semisimple Lie group of real rank at least 2 and Γ\Gamma is an irreducible lattice in GG, then every homomorphism from Γ\Gamma to the outer automorphism group of a finitely generated free group has finite image.

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@article{arxiv.1004.3222,
  title  = {Actions of higher-rank lattices on free groups},
  author = {Martin R. Bridson and Richard D. Wade},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.3222},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

11 pages, no figures. Final version. To appear in Compositio Math