The 6-strand braid group is CAT(0).

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0138-9zbMATH Open1347.20044arXiv1304.5990OpenAlexW3103545055MaRDI QIDQ292072FDOQ292072

Authors: Thomas Haettel, Dawid Kielak, Petra Schwer 

Publication date: 10 June 2016

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that braid groups with at most 6 strands are CAT(0) using the close connection between these groups, the associated non-crossing partition complexes and the embeddability of their diagonal links into spherical buildings of type A. Furthermore, we prove that the orthoscheme complex of any bounded graded modular complemented lattice is CAT(0), giving a partial answer to a conjecture of Brady and McCammond.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5990

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zbMATH Keywords

spherical buildingsmodular latticesbraid groupsnon-crossing partitions\(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\) groupsorthoscheme complexes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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