No uncountable Polish group can be a right-angled Artin group

DOI10.3390/AXIOMS6020013MaRDI QIDQ2275122zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gianluca Paolini, S. Shelah

Publication date 2 October 2019

Published in Axioms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03021

zbMATH Keywords

descriptive set theoryPolish group topologiesright-angled Artin groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite automorphism groups (20B27) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Structure of general topological groups (22A05)

Abstract: We prove that no uncountable Polish group can admit a system of generators whose associated length function satisfies the following conditions: (i) if $0<k<omega$, then $lg(x)leqlg(x^k)$; (ii) if $lg(y)<k<omega$ and $x^k=y$, then $x=e$. In particular, the automorphism group of a countable structure cannot be an uncountable right-angled Artin group. This generalizes results from [3] and [5], where this is proved for free and free Abelian uncountable groups.

Review text

Summary: We prove that if \(G\) is a Polish group and \(A\) a group admitting a system of generators whose associated length function satisfies: (i) if \(0 < k < \omega\), then \(l g(x) \leq l g(x^k)\); (ii) if \(l g(y) < k < \omega\) and \(x^k = y\), then \(x = e\), then there exists a subgroup \(G^\ast\) of \(G\) of size \(\mathfrak{b}\) (the bounding number) such that \(G^\ast\) is not embeddable in \(A\). In particular, we prove that the automorphism group of a countable structure cannot be an uncountable right-angled Artin group. This generalizes analogous results for free and free abelian uncountable groups.

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