Stable rational cohomology of automorphism groups of free groups and the integral cohomology of moduli spaces of graphs
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It is not known whether or not the stable rational cohomology groups H̃∗(Aut(F∞);Q) always vanish (see Hatcher in [5] and Hatcher and Vogtmann in [7] where they pose the question and show that it does vanish in the first 6 dimensions.) We show that either the rational cohomology does not vanish in certain dimensions, or the integral cohomology of a moduli space of pointed graphs does not stabilize in certain other dimensions. Similar results are stated for groups of outer automorphisms. This yields that H(Q̂m;Z), H (Q̂m;Z), and H(Qm;Z) never stabilize as m → ∞, where the moduli spaces Q̂m and Qm are the quotients of the spines X̂m and Xm of “outer space” and “auter space”, respectively, introduced in [3] by Culler and Vogtmann and [6] by Hatcher and Vogtmann. AMS Classification numbers Primary: 05C25, 20F32, 20J05 Secondary: 20F28, 55N91
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