The genus of the configuration spaces for Artin groups of affine type

DOI10.4171/RLM/676MaRDI QIDQ467374zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrea Villa, Mario Salvetti, D. Moroni

Publication date 3 November 2014

Published in Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Serie IX. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2392

zbMATH Keywords

cohomology of groupsconfiguration spaceArtin groupCoxeter systemSchwarz genus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology (55N25) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Lyusternik-Shnirel'man category of a space, topological complexity à la Farber, topological robotics (topological aspects) (55M30)

Abstract: Let $(W,S)$ be a Coxeter system, $S$ finite, and let $G_W$ be the associated Artin group. One has configuration spaces $Y,Y_W,$ where $G_W=p{i}_1(Y_W),$ and a natural $W$-covering $f_W:Yo{Y}_W.$ The Schwarz genus $g(f_W)$ is a natural topological invariant to consider. In this paper we generalize this result by computing the Schwarz genus for a class of Artin groups, which includes the affine-type Artin groups. Let $K=K(W,S)$ be the simplicial scheme of all subsets $JsubsetS$ such that the parabolic group $W_J$ is finite. We introduce the class of groups for which $dim(K)$ equals the homological dimension of $K,$ and we show that $g(f_W)$ is always the maximum possible for such class of groups. For affine Artin groups, such maximum reduces to the rank of the group. In general, it is given by $dim(X_W)+1,$ where $X_{W}subset{Y}_W$ is a well-known $CW$-complex which has the same homotopy type as $Y_W.$

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