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Resonance of basis-conjugating automorphism groups

Author(s): Daniel C. Cohen
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 2835-2841.
MSC (2000): Primary 20F28; Secondary 14M12, 20J06
Posted: February 16, 2009
MathSciNet review: 2506439
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Abstract: We determine the structure of the first resonance variety of the cohomology ring of the group of automorphisms of a finitely generated free group which act by conjugation on a given basis.


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Additional Information:

Daniel C. Cohen
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803
Email: cohen@math.lsu.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-09-09858-X
PII: S 0002-9939(09)09858-X
Received by editor(s): November 17, 2008
Posted: February 16, 2009
Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by National Security Agency grant No. H98230-05-1-0055
Communicated by: Daniel Ruberman
Copyright of article: Copyright 2009, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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