Embedding right-angled Artin groups into graph braid groups.

DOI10.1007/S10711-006-9101-0MaRDI QIDQ2642672zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lucas Sabalka

Publication date 17 August 2007

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506253

zbMATH Keywords

graph braid groupshyperbolic surface groupsright-angled Artin groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: We construct an embedding of any right-angled Artin group $G(Delta)$ defined by a graph $Delta$ into a graph braid group. The number of strands required for the braid group is equal to the chromatic number of $Delta$. This construction yields an example of a hyperbolic surface subgroup embedded in a two strand planar graph braid group.

Review text

\textit{J. Crisp} and \textit{B. Wiest}, [in Algebr. Geom. Topol. 4, 439-472 (2004; Zbl 1057.20028)], showed that for any finite graph \(\Gamma\) and any \(n\), there exists a graph \(\Delta\) such that \(B_n\Gamma\), the (\(n\)-strand) graph braid group, embeds in \(G(\Delta)\), the right-angled Artin group associated to \(\Delta\). In this paper, the opposite direction is proven: For every finite graph \(\Delta\) and any coloring \(C\) of \(\Delta\) with \(n\) colors, there exists a graph \(\Gamma\) such that the right-angled Artin group \(G(\Delta)\) embeds into the graph braid group \(B_n\Gamma\). The construction yields an example of a hyperbolic surface subgroup embedded in a two strand planar graph braid group.

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