Mathematics – Geometric Topology
Scientific paper
2004-06-14
Geom. Topol. 9(2005) 1295-1336
Mathematics
Geometric Topology
Published by Geometry and Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol9/paper30.abs.html
Scientific paper
The homology groups of the automorphism group of a free group are known to stabilize as the number of generators of the free group goes to infinity, and this paper relativizes this result to a family of groups that can be defined in terms of homotopy equivalences of a graph fixing a subgraph. This is needed for the second author's recent work on the relationship between the infinite loop structures on the classifying spaces of mapping class groups of surfaces and automorphism groups of free groups, after stabilization and plus-construction. We show more generally that the homology groups of mapping class groups of most compact orientable 3-manifolds, modulo twists along 2-spheres, stabilize under iterated connected sum with the product of a circle and a 2-sphere, and the stable groups are invariant under connected sum with a solid torus or a ball. These results are proved using complexes of disks and spheres in reducible 3-manifolds.
Hatcher Allen
Wahl Nathalie
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