An obstruction to embedding right-angled Artin groups in mapping class groups

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNT064zbMATH Open1345.57003arXiv1207.5498OpenAlexW2110316072MaRDI QIDQ2929673FDOQ2929673

Authors: Sang-Hyun Kim, Thomas Koberda 

Publication date: 14 November 2014

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For every orientable surface of finite negative Euler characteristic, we find a right-angled Artin group of cohomological dimension two which does not embed into the associated mapping class group. For a right-angled Artin group on a graph $gam$ to embed into the mapping class group of a surface $S$, we show that the chromatic number of $gam$ cannot exceed the chromatic number of the clique graph of the curve graph $mathcalC(S)$. Thus, the chromatic number of $gam$ is a global obstruction to embedding the right-angled Artin group $A(gam)$ into the mapping class group $Mod(S)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5498

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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