Stable commutator length in right‐angled Artin and Coxeter groups

DOI10.1112/JLMS.12680zbMATH Open1522.20166arXiv2012.04088OpenAlexW4297229745MaRDI QIDQ6134652FDOQ6134652

Authors: Lvzhou Chen, Nicolaus Heuer 

Publication date: 22 August 2023

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We establish a spectral gap for stable commutator length (scl) of integral chains in right-angled Artin groups (RAAGs). We show that this gap is not uniform, i.e. there are RAAGs and integral chains with scl arbitrarily close to zero. We determine the size of this gap up to a multiplicative constant in terms of the opposite path length of the defining graph. This result is in stark contrast with the known uniform gap 1/2 for elements in RAAGs. We prove an analogous result for right-angled Coxeter groups. In a second part of this paper we relate certain integral chains in RAAGs to the fractional stability number of graphs. This has several consequences: Firstly, we show that every rational number q>=1 arises as the stable commutator length of an integral chain in some RAAG. Secondly, we show that computing scl of elements and chains in RAAGs is NP hard. Finally, we heuristically relate the distribution of scl for random elements in the free group to the distribution of fractional stability number in random graphs. We prove all of our results in the general setting of graph products. In particular all above results hold verbatim for right-angled Coxeter groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04088

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zbMATH Keywords

right-angled Artin groupspectral gapgeometric group theoryright-angled Coxeter groupstable commutator length

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph labelling (graceful graphs, bandwidth, etc.) (05C78) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Commutator calculus (20F12)

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