The rational homology of the IA-automorphism group IAn of the free group Fn is still mysterious. We study the quotient of the rational homology of IAn that is obtained as the image of the map induced by the abelianization map, which we call the Albanese homology of IAn. We obtain a representation-stable GL(n, Q)-subquotient of the Albanese homology of IAn, which conjecturally coincides with the entire Albanese homology of IAn. In particular, we obtain a lower bound of the dimension of the Albanese homology of IAn for each homological degree in a stable range. Moreover, we determine the entire third Albanese homology of IAn for n ≥ 9. We also study the Albanese homology of an analogue of IAn to the outer automorphism group of Fn.
Contents
Introduction
Preliminaries
Abelian cycles in HAlbanese cohomology of IA n 9. Albanese homology of IO n 10. The third Albanese homology of IO n 11. The third Albanese homology of IA n 12. Problems and Perspectives Appendix A. Properties of Albanese homology and cohomology References