An infinite group isomorphic to its own automorphism group, but not complete, part 1

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An example of a non-complete group isomorphic to its own automorphism group is the dihedral group of order $8$.

But, this question is about infinite groups (specifically, non-cohopfian groups).

Question: Do there exist (necessarily infinite) groups $G$ for which $\mathrm{Aut}(G) \cong G$ satisfying the following property?

The center of $G$ is trivial, but $G$ has some outer automorphisms (so the conjugation action $G \to \mathrm{Aut}(G)$ is injective but not surjective).

Clearly, if $G$ satisfies this property, then it cannot be cohopfian. In particular, $G$ must be infinite.

Update: The other case has been moved to Part 2 per user1729's comment below.

Best Answer

The infinite dihedral group is an example with property 1.

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