New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 22 (2016) 191-197

  

Laurent Bartholdi

The rational homology of the outer automorphism group of F7

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Published: February 15, 2016
Keywords: Outer automorphism group; graph homology; free group
Subject: 20F28, 20J06, 20F65, 20E05

Abstract
We compute the homology groups H(Out(F7);Q) of the outer automorphism group of the free group of rank 7.

We produce in this manner the first rational homology classes of Out(Fn) that are neither constant (*=0) nor Morita classes (*=2n-4).


Acknowledgements

Partially supported by ANR grant ANR-14-ACHN-0018-01


Author information

École Normale Supérieure, Paris and Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen
laurent.bartholdi@gmail.com