The Andreadakis conjecture for automorphism groups of free groups

Let FnF_n be the free group of rank nn, let IAn=An(1)\mathrm{IA}_n=\mathcal{A}_n'(1) be the group of automorphisms of FnF_n acting trivially on its abelianization, and let

An(1)An(2)\mathcal{A}_n'(1)\supset\mathcal{A}_n'(2)\supset\cdots

be the lower central series of IAn\mathrm{IA}_n. Let An(1)An(2)\mathcal{A}_n(1)\supset\mathcal{A}_n(2)\supset\cdots be the Andreadakis–Johnson filtration of IAn\mathrm{IA}_n; since this is a central filtration, An(k)An(k)\mathcal{A}_n'(k)\subset\mathcal{A}_n(k) for every k1k\geq 1. The Andreadakis conjecture. For any n3n\geq 3 and k1k\geq 1,

An(k)=An(k).\mathcal{A}_n'(k)=\mathcal{A}_n(k).

The conjecture asks whether the lower central series and the Andreadakis–Johnson filtration of IAn\mathrm{IA}_n coincide in every degree for free groups of rank at least three. The supplied source does not state a resolution, so the status is left open.

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Primary source

Naoya Enomoto and Takao Satoh, “On the structures of the Johnson cokernels of the basis-conjugating automorphism groups of free groups”, arXiv:2403.04286 (2024).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1607.05393, arXiv:1204.0876.

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