K(,1) and word problems for infinite type Artin-Tits groups, and applications to virtual braid groups.

DOI10.1007/S00209-012-0989-9zbMATH Open1300.20045arXiv1007.1365OpenAlexW1994194609MaRDI QIDQ1925759FDOQ1925759

Luis Paris, Eddy Godelle

Publication date: 19 December 2012

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $Gamma$ be a Coxeter graph, let $(W,S)$ be its associated Coxeter system, and let $(A,Sigma$) be its associated Artin-Tits system. We regard $W$ as a reflection group acting on a real vector space $V$. Let $I$ be the Tits cone, and let $E_{G}amma$ be the complement in $I+iV$ of the reflecting hyperplanes. Recall that Charney, Davis, and Salvetti have constructed a simplicial complex $Omega(Gamma)$ having the same homotopy type as $E_{G}amma$. We observe that, if $TsubsetS$, then $Omega(Gamm{a}_T)$ naturally embeds into $Omega(Gamma)$. We prove that this embedding admits a retraction $p{i}_T:Omega(Gamma)oOmega(Gamm{a}_T)$, and we deduce several topological and combinatorial results on parabolic subgroups of $A$. From a family $SS$ of subsets of $S$ having certain properties, we construct a cube complex $Phi$, we show that $Phi$ has the same homotopy type as the universal cover of $E_{G}amma$, and we prove that $Phi$ is CAT(0) if and only if $SS$ is a flag complex. We say that $XsubsetS$ is free of infinity if $Gamm{a}_X$ has no edge labeled by $infty$. We show that, if $E_{Gamm{a}_X}$ is aspherical and $A_X$ has a solution to the word problem for all $XsubsetS$ free of infinity, then $E_{G}amma$ is aspherical and $A$ has a solution to the word problem. We apply these results to the virtual braid group $V{B}_n$. In particular, we give a solution to the word problem in $V{B}_n$, and we prove that the virtual cohomological dimension of $V{B}_n$ is $n-1$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.1365

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zbMATH Keywords

flag complexessimplicial complexesreflection groupsword problemCoxeter systemshomotopy typesvirtual braid groupsArtin-Tits systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces (55P20)

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