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Acylindrical hyperbolicity of outer automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups

Group Theory 2026-05-05 v2

Abstract

We study the acylindrical hyperbolicity of the outer automorphism group of a right-angled Artin group AΓA_\Gamma. When the defining graph Γ\Gamma has no SIL-pair (separating intersection of links), we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for Out(AΓ)\mathrm{Out}(A_\Gamma) to be acylindrically hyperbolic. As a corollary, if Γ\Gamma is a random connected graph satisfying a certain probabilistic condition, then Out(AΓ)\mathrm{Out}(A_\Gamma) is not acylindrically hyperbolic with high probability. When Γ\Gamma has a maximal SIL-pair system, we derive a classification theorem for partial conjugations. Such a classification theorem allows us to show that the acylindrical hyperbolicity of Out(AΓ)\mathrm{Out}(A_\Gamma) is closely related to the existence of a specific type of partial conjugations.

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@article{arxiv.2405.19702,
  title  = {Acylindrical hyperbolicity of outer automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups},
  author = {Hyungryul Baik and Junseok Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.19702},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Comments are welcome! v2: Corollary 1 has been revised; a detailed proof has been added in Section 5; several remarks and minor corrections were added