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On Basis-Conjugating Automorphisms of Free Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. McCool
J. McCool*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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Let X = {x1, … xn} be a free generating set of the free group Fn and let H be the subgroup of Aut Fn consisting of those automorphisms α such that α(xi) is conjugate to xi for each i = 1, 2 , …, n. We call H the Z-conjugating subgroup of Aut Fn. In [1] Humphries found a generating set for the isomorphic copy H1 of H consisting of Nielsen transformations

where each is conjugate to ui (see remark 1 below). The purpose of this paper is to find a presentation of H (and hence of H1).

Let i ≠ j be elements of {1, 2, …, n}. We denote by (xi; xj) the automorphism of Fn which sends xi to and fixes xk if k ≠ i. Let S be the set of all such automorphisms.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 38 , Issue 6 , 01 December 1986 , pp. 1525 - 1529
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1986

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