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

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DOI10.4171/RLM/676zbMATH Open1304.55007arXiv1404.2392OpenAlexW2089009343MaRDI QIDQ467374FDOQ467374


Authors: Andrea Villa, Mario Salvetti, D. Moroni Edit this on Wikidata


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)

Abstract: Let (W,S) be a Coxeter system, S finite, and let GW be the associated Artin group. One has configuration spaces Y,YW, where GW=pi1(YW), and a natural W-covering fW:YoYW. The Schwarz genus g(fW) 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 WJ is finite. We introduce the class of groups for which dim(K) equals the homological dimension of K, and we show that g(fW) 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(XW)+1, where XWsubsetYW is a well-known CW-complex which has the same homotopy type as YW.


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




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