scholarly journals Assembling homology classes in automorphism groups of free groups

2016 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 751-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Conant ◽  
Allen Hatcher ◽  
Martin Kassabov ◽  
Karen Vogtmann
Keyword(s):  
Automorphism Groups ◽  
Free Groups

On the SL(2, C)-representation rings of free abelian groups

2018 ◽  
Vol 167 (02) ◽  
pp. 229-247
Author(s):  
TAKAO SATOH
Keyword(s):  
Abelian Group ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Automorphism Groups ◽  
Free Abelian Group ◽  
Abelian Groups ◽  
Free Groups ◽  
The Other ◽  
Subsequent Research ◽  
Representation Rings ◽  
Free Abelian Groups

AbstractIn this paper, we study “the ring of component functions” of SL(2, C)-representations of free abelian groups. This is a subsequent research of our previous work [11] for free groups. We introduce some descending filtration of the ring, and determine the structure of its graded quotients.Then we give two applications. In [30], we constructed the generalized Johnson homomorphisms. We give an upper bound on their images with the graded quotients. The other application is to construct a certain crossed homomorphisms of the automorphism groups of free groups. We show that our crossed homomorphism induces Morita's 1-cocycle defined in [22]. In other words, we give another construction of Morita's 1-cocyle with the SL(2, C)-representations of the free abelian group.

scholarly journals EXTENDING REPRESENTATIONS OF BRAID GROUPS TO THE AUTOMORPHISM GROUPS OF FREE GROUPS

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (08) ◽  
pp. 1087-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
VALERIJ G. BARDAKOV
Keyword(s):  
Free Group ◽  
Braid Group ◽  
Automorphism Groups ◽  
Free Groups ◽  
Linear Representation ◽  
Braid Groups ◽  
Burau Representation ◽  
Pure Braid Group

We construct a linear representation of the group IA (Fn) of IA-automorphisms of a free group Fn, an extension of the Gassner representation of the pure braid group Pn. Although the problem of faithfulness of the Gassner representation is still open for n > 3, we prove that the restriction of our representation to the group of basis conjugating automorphisms Cbn contains a non-trivial kernel even if n = 2. We construct also an extension of the Burau representation to the group of conjugating automorphisms Cn. This representation is not faithful for n ≥ 2.

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