Notes on periodic elements of Garside groups

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Authors Eon-Kyung Lee, Sang-Jin Lee

Publication date 3 August 2008

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a Garside group with Garside element $Delta$. An element $g$ in $G$ is said to be emph{periodic} if some power of $g$ lies in the cyclic group generated by $Delta$. This paper shows the following. (i) The periodicity of an element does not depend on the choice of a particular Garside structure if and only if the center of $G$ is cyclic. (ii) If $g^k=Delt{a}^{ka}$ for some nonzero integer $k$, then $g$ is conjugate to $Delt{a}^a$. (iii) Every finite subgroup of the quotient group $G/<Delt{a}^m>$ is cyclic, where $Delt{a}^m$ is the minimal positive central power of $Delta$.

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