Right-angled Artin groups and curve graphs of nonorientable surfaces (Q6163399)

Let \(\Gamma\) be a finite simplicial graph, \(V(\Gamma)=\{v_{1},v_{2}, \dots,v_{n}\}\) be the vertex set of \(\Gamma\) and \(E(\Gamma)\) be the edge set of \(\Gamma\). Then the right-angled Artin group is the group given by the following presentation: \[ A(\Gamma)=\big \langle v_{1},v_{2}, \dots,v_{n} \; \big | \; [v_{i},v_{j}]=1 \text{ iff } \{v_{i}, v_{j} \} \in E(\Gamma) \big \rangle. \] Let \(N\) be a closed nonorientable surface and let \(\mathcal{C}^{\mathrm{two}}(N)\) be the subgraph, induced by essential two-sided simple closed curves in \(N\), of the ordinary curve graph \(\mathcal{C}(N)\). In this paper, the authors prove that, for every finite full subgraph \(\Gamma\) of \(\mathcal{C}^{\mathrm{two}}(N)\), the right-angled Artin group \(A(\Gamma)\) can be embedded in the mapping class group of \(N\). In addition, they show that there exists a finite graph \(\Gamma\) which is not a full subgraph of \(\mathcal{C}^{\mathrm{two}}(N)\) for some \(N\), but the right-angled Artin group on \(\Gamma\) can be embedded in the mapping class group of \(N\).