On braid groups and right-angled Artin groups (Q464243)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6358005
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6358005 |
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On braid groups and right-angled Artin groups (English)
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17 October 2014
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A \textit{right-angled Artin group} is a group with a presentation whose only relators are commutators between generators. A. Abrams and R. Ghrist conjectured in [\textit{A. Abrams}, Geom. Dedicata 92, 185--194 (2002; Zbl 1049.20023)] and [\textit{R. Ghrist}, AMS/IP Stud. Adv. Math. 24, 29--40 (2001; Zbl 1010.55012)] that braid groups of planar graphs are right-angled Artin groups. The authors prove that contractible graphs whose nodes (vertices of degree \(\geq 3\)) all lie in an interval (copy of \([0,1]\)) have right-angled braid groups.
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braid group
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caterpillar graph
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configuration space
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linear tree
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right-angled Artin group
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