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On the derived length of parasoluble groups

Alessio Russo (2003)

Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana

In this paper groups are considered inducing groups of power automorphisms on each factor of their derived series. In particular, it is proved that soluble groups with such property have derived length at most 3, and that this bound is best possible.

Representations of (1,1)-knots

Alessia Cattabriga, Michele Mulazzani (2005)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We present two different representations of (1,1)-knots and study some connections between them. The first representation is algebraic: every (1,1)-knot is represented by an element of the pure mapping class group of the twice punctured torus PMCG₂(T). Moreover, there is a surjective map from the kernel of the natural homomorphism Ω:PMCG₂(T) → MCG(T) ≅ SL(2,ℤ), which is a free group of rank two, to the class of all (1,1)-knots in a fixed lens space. The second representation is parametric: every...

Stable rational cohomology of automorphism groups of free groups and the integral cohomology of moduli spaces of graphs.

Craig A. Jensen (2002)

Publicacions Matemàtiques

It is not known whether or not the stable rational cohomology groups H*(Aut(F∞);Q) always vanish (see Hatcher in [5] and Hatcher and Vogtmann in [7] where they pose the question and show that it does vanish in the first 6 dimensions). We show that either the rational cohomology does not vanish in certain dimensions, or the integral cohomology of a moduli space of pointed graphs does not stabilize in certain other dimensions. Similar results are stated for groups of outer automorphisms. This yields...

The 4-string braid group B 4 has property RD and exponential mesoscopic rank

Sylvain Barré, Mikaël Pichot (2011)

Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France

We prove that the braid group B 4 on 4 strings, its central quotient B 4 / z , and the automorphism group Aut ( F 2 ) of the free group F 2 on 2 generators, have the property RD of Haagerup–Jolissaint. We also prove that the braid group B 4 is a group of intermediate mesoscopic rank (of dimension 3). More precisely, we show that the above three groups have exponential mesoscopic rank, i.e., that they contain exponentially many large flat balls which are not included in flats.

The abelianization of the Johnson kernel

Alexandru Dimca, Richard Hain, Stefan Papadima (2014)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We prove that the first complex homology of the Johnson subgroup of the Torelli group T g is a non-trivial, unipotent T g -module for all g 4 and give an explicit presentation of it as a S y m . H 1 ( T g , C ) -module when g 6 . We do this by proving that, for a finitely generated group G satisfying an assumption close to formality, the triviality of the restricted characteristic variety implies that the first homology of its Johnson kernel is a nilpotent module over the corresponding Laurent polynomial ring, isomorphic to the...

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