On braid groups and right-angled Artin groups

DOI10.1007/S10711-013-9914-6MaRDI QIDQ464243zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francis Connolly, Margaret Doig

Publication date 17 October 2014

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411368

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupcaterpillar graphconfiguration spacelinear treeright-angled Artin group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: The n-string braid group of a graph X is defined as the fundamental group of the n-point configuration space of the space X. This configuration space is a finite dimensional aspherical space. A. Abrams and R. Ghrist have conjectured that this braid group is a right angled Artin group if X is planar. We prove their conjecture if X is a tree whose nodes all lie in a single interval of X.

Review text

A \textit{right-angled Artin group} is a group with a presentation whose only relators are commutators between generators. A. Abrams and R. Ghrist conjectured in [\textit{A. Abrams}, Geom. Dedicata 92, 185--194 (2002; Zbl 1049.20023)] and [\textit{R. Ghrist}, AMS/IP Stud. Adv. Math. 24, 29--40 (2001; Zbl 1010.55012)] that braid groups of planar graphs are right-angled Artin groups. The authors prove that contractible graphs whose nodes (vertices of degree \(\geq 3\)) all lie in an interval (copy of \([0,1]\)) have right-angled braid groups.

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