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A note on separability in outer automorphism groups

Group Theory 2025-08-13 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We give a criterion for separability of subgroups of certain outer automorphism groups. This answers questions of Hagen and Sisto, by strengthening and generalizing a result of theirs on mapping class groups.

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@article{arxiv.2407.13824,
  title  = {A note on separability in outer automorphism groups},
  author = {Francesco Fournier-Facio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.13824},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

6 pages. v2: added Propositions 2.6 and 2.8; final version, to appear in Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society

R2 v1 2026-06-28T17:46:32.096Z