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The commutator subgroup [G,G] is characteristic: every automorphism sends commutators to commutators and therefore preserves the subgroup they generate. Thus an automorphism A induces
A:Gab⟶Gab,g[G,G]⟼A(g)[G,G].
(1)
This is independent of the coset representative g. If A′=ch​∘A differs from A by an inner automorphism, then
A′(g)[G,G]=hA(g)h−1[G,G]=A(g)[G,G]
(2)
because the abelianization is abelian. Hence q([A])=A is independent of the representative of the outer class. Finally AB=AB, so
q:Out(G)⟶Aut(Gab)
(3)
is a well-defined group homomorphism.

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