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Outer actions of $\mathrm{Out}(F_n)$ on small right-angled Artin groups

### Dawid Kielak

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 18 (2018) 1041–1065
##### Abstract

We determine the precise conditions under which $SOut\left({F}_{n}\right)$, the unique index-two subgroup of $Out\left({F}_{n}\right)$, can act nontrivially via outer automorphisms on a RAAG whose defining graph has fewer than $\frac{1}{2}\left(\genfrac{}{}{0.0pt}{}{n}{2}\right)$ vertices.

We also show that the outer automorphism group of a RAAG cannot act faithfully via outer automorphisms on a RAAG with a strictly smaller (in number of vertices) defining graph.

Along the way we determine the minimal dimensions of nontrivial linear representations of congruence quotients of the integral special linear groups over algebraically closed fields of characteristic zero, and provide a new lower bound on the cardinality of a set on which $SOut\left({F}_{n}\right)$ can act nontrivially.

Out(F_n), RAAGs
##### Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 20F65
Secondary: 20F28, 20F36
##### Publication
Received: 25 February 2017
Revised: 14 August 2017
Accepted: 21 November 2017
Published: 12 March 2018
##### Authors
 Dawid Kielak Fakultät für Mathematik Universität Bielefeld Bielefeld Germany