On virtual indicability and property (T) for outer automorphism groups of RAAGs

Abstract

We give a condition on the defining graph of a right-angled Artin group, which implies that its automorphism group is virtually indicable, that is, it has a finite index subgroup that admits a homomorphism onto $\mathbb{Z}$. We use this as a part of a criterion that determines precisely when the outer automorphism group of a right-angled Artin group defined on a graph with no separating intersection of links has property (T). As a consequence, we also obtain a similar criterion for graphs in which each equivalence class under the domination relation of Servatius generates an abelian group.