Parity stability conjecture for the top cohomology of Aut⁡(Fn)\operatorname{Aut}(F_n)

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Let FnF_n be the free group of rank n≥2n\geq 2, let Aut⁡(Fn)\operatorname{Aut}(F_n) be its automorphism group, and let H∗(−;Q)H^*(-;\mathbb{Q}) denote rational group cohomology. Parity stability conjecture. For each i≥0i\geq 0 the group H2n−2−i(Aut⁡(Fn);Q)H^{2n-2-i}(\operatorname{Aut}(F_n);\mathbb{Q}) only depends on the parity of nn for n≫in\gg i. This is a more speculative analogue of the stable instability conjectures for arithmetic and mapping class groups, and the source states that it remains open even for i=0i=0.

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Thomas Church, Benson Farb and Andrew Putman, “A stability conjecture for the unstable cohomology of SL_n Z, mapping class groups, and Aut(F_n)”, arXiv:1208.3216 (2013).

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