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Finite groups of untwisted outer automorphisms of RAAGs

Group Theory 2025-08-20 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

For any right-angled Artin group AΓA_{\Gamma}, Charney--Stambaugh--Vogtmann showed that the subgroup U0(AΓ)Out(AΓ)U^0(A_{\Gamma}) \leq\text{Out}(A_{\Gamma}) generated by Whitehead automorphisms and inversions acts properly and cocompactly on a contractible space KΓK_{\Gamma}. In the present paper we show that any finite subgroup of U0(AΓ)U^0(A_{\Gamma}) fixes a point of KΓK_{\Gamma}. This generalizes the fact that any finite subgroup of Out(Fn)\text{Out}(F_n) fixes a point of Outer Space, and implies that there are only finitely many conjugacy classes of finite subgroups in U0(AΓ)U^0(A_{\Gamma}).

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@article{arxiv.2308.09222,
  title  = {Finite groups of untwisted outer automorphisms of RAAGs},
  author = {Corey Bregman and Ruth Charney and Karen Vogtmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.09222},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

30 pages, 6 figures. Minor edits. This is the final, accepted version, to appear in Algebraic and Geometric Topology