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Right-angled Artin groups as finite-index subgroups of their outer automorphism groups

Group Theory 2024-03-14 v2

Abstract

We prove that every right-angled Artin group occurs as a finite-index subgroup of the outer automorphism group of another right-angled Artin group. We furthermore show that the latter group can be chosen in such a way that the quotient is isomorphic to (Z/2Z)N(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})^N for some NN. For these, we give explicit constructions using the group of pure symmetric outer automorphisms. Moreover, we need two conditions by Day-Wade and Wade-Br\"uck about when this group is a right-angled Artin group and when it has finite index.

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@article{arxiv.2209.02033,
  title  = {Right-angled Artin groups as finite-index subgroups of their outer automorphism groups},
  author = {Manuel Wiedmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.02033},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

17 pages, 4 figures; v2: small changes, mainly update of the appendix