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

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0138-9MaRDI QIDQ292072zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Haettel, Dawid Kielak, Petra Schwer

Publication date 10 June 2016

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

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)

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.

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