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Acylindrical hyperbolicity of automorphism groups of infinitely-ended groups

Group Theory 2021-09-17 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We prove that the automorphism group of every infinitely-ended finitely generated group is acylindrically hyperbolic. In particular Aut(Fn)\mathrm{Aut}(\mathbb{F}_n) is acylindrically hyperbolic for every n2n\ge 2. More generally, if GG is a group which is not virtually cyclic, and hyperbolic relative to a finite collection P\mathcal{P} of finitely generated proper subgroups, then Aut(G,P)\mathrm{Aut}(G,\mathcal{P}) is acylindrically hyperbolic. As a consequence, a free-by-cyclic group FnφZ\mathbb{F}_n\rtimes_{\varphi}\mathbb{Z} is acylindrically hyperbolic if and only if φ\varphi has infinite order in Out(Fn)\mathrm{Out}(\mathbb{F}_n).

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@article{arxiv.2002.01388,
  title  = {Acylindrical hyperbolicity of automorphism groups of infinitely-ended groups},
  author = {Anthony Genevois and Camille Horbez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.01388},
  year   = {2021}
}

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31 pages. To appear in Journal of Topology