Curve graphs and Garside groups

DOI10.1007/S10711-016-0213-XMaRDI QIDQ527608zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthieu Calvez, Bert Wiest

Publication date 12 May 2017

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02482

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupscurve complexesGarside groupsGromov-hyperbolicity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We present a simple construction which associates to every Garside group a metric space, called the additional length complex, on which the group acts. These spaces share important features with curve complexes: they are $delta$-hyperbolic, infinite, and typically locally infinite graphs. We conjecture that, apart from obvious counterexamples, additional length complexes are always of infinite diameter. We prove this conjecture for the classical example of braid groups $(B_n,Delta)$; moreover, in this framework, reducible and periodic braids act elliptically, and at least some pseudo-Anosov braids act loxodromically. We conjecture that for $B_n$, the additional length complex is actually quasi-isometric to the curve complex of the $n$ times punctured disk.

Review text

To any Garside group \(G\), the authors associate a graph \(\mathcal C_{AL}(G)\) as follows. Vertices are the left cosets \(g\Delta^{\mathbb Z}\) where \(\Delta\) denotes a Garside element. Edges between \(g\Delta^{\mathbb Z}\) and \(h\Delta^{\mathbb Z}\) are defined in terms of special elements \(x\) which satisfy \(gx\in h\Delta^{\mathbb Z}\) for suitable representatives \(g\) and \(h\). This so-called additional length graph is made into a metric space by assuming that edges are of length 1. The group \(G\) acts on \(\mathcal C_{AL}(G)\) by isometries. The authors prove that \(\mathcal C_{AL}(G)\) is \(\delta\)-hyperbolic. For Artin's braid groups, it is shown that the diameter is infinite. It is conjectured that \(\mathcal C_{AL}(G)\) is quasi-isometric to the curve graph of a punctured disc. Furthermore, it is proved that periodic and reducible braids act elliptically, while there exists a pseudo-Asanov braid which acts loxodromically.

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