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The Euler characteristic of the Whitehead automorphism group of a free product

Group Theory 2007-05-23 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

A combinatorial summation identity over the lattice of labelled hypertrees is established that allows one to gain concrete information on the Euler characteristics of various automorphism groups of free products of groups.

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@article{arxiv.math/0601694,
  title  = {The Euler characteristic of the Whitehead automorphism group of a free product},
  author = {Craig Jensen and Jon McCammond and John Meier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0601694},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

19 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc