Commensurability of graph products

DOI10.2140/AGT.2001.1.587MaRDI QIDQ5947967zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tadeusz Januszkiewicz, Jacek Świątkowski

Publication date 10 December 2001

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0111239, https://eudml.org/doc/122161, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/agt/AGTVol1/agt-1-30.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

graph productsright-angled buildingsstrong commensurabilitysubgroups of finite index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We define graph products of families of pairs of groups and study the question when two such graph products are commensurable. As an application we prove linearity of certain graph products.

Review text

Two groups \(G\), \(G^*\) are commensurable if there is a group \(H\) isomorphic to a subgroup of finite index in both \(G\) and \(G^*\); they are strongly commensurable if \(H\) has the same index in both \(G\) and \(G^*\). The authors prove that, if \((G_v)_{v\in V}\), \((G^*_v)_{v\in V}\) are two families of groups indexed by vertices of a finite graph and if, for each \(v\in V\), \(G_v\) and \(G_v^*\) are strongly commensurable, then the two corresponding graph products are also strongly commensurable. The proof involves two complementary descriptions of right-angled buildings on which a graph product acts. Since a group commensurable with a linear group is linear, the result allows the authors to prove the linearity of a number of graph products whose linearity was not known before. The authors generalize the main result somewhat to allow commensurability, under certain circumstances, to replace strong commensurability; but examples show that additional hypotheses are required.

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• The topology of local commensurability graphs
• Unification of graph products and compatibility with switching
• Groups quasi-isometric to right-angled Artin groups
• Rational growth and degree of commutativity of graph products
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• Linearity of graph products
• Hierarchically hyperbolic groups and uniform exponential growth
• Homology growth, hyperbolization, and fibering
• Commensurability and separability of quasiconvex subgroups.
• Finite index subgroups of graph products.

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