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Automorphisms of Relatively Free Groups in the Variety N2A
AN2
Nc
Department of Mathematics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki GR 54006, Greece, apapist{at}ccf.auth.gr
Received 5 October 1999. Revision received 7 July 2000.
For positive integers n and c, with n
2, let Gn, c be a relatively free group of finite rank n in the variety N2A
AN2
Nc. It is shown that the subgroup of the automorphism group Aut(Gn, c) of Gn, c generated by the tame automorphisms and an explicitly described finite set of IA-automorphisms of Gn, c has finite index in Aut(Gn, c). Furthermore, it is proved that there are no non-trivial elements of Gn, c fixed by every tame automorphism of Gn, c.