The seven-strand braid group is CAT(0)

DOI10.1007/S00229-022-01387-XMaRDI QIDQ6155364zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Seong Gu Jeong

Publication date 12 June 2023

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09350

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\)-spaceArtin groupbraid groupgeometric group theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: We prove that the 7-strand braid group is CAT(0) by elaborating on the argument of Haettel, Kielak and Schwer

Review text

An open problem in geometric group theory is to determine if braid groups are \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\). In [Algebr. Geom. Topol. 10, No. 4, 2277--2314 (2010; Zbl 1205.05246)], \textit{T. Brady} and \textit{J. McCammond} proved that braid groups on at most 5 strands are \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\) and in [\textit{T. Haettel} et al., Geom. Dedicata 182, 263-286 (2016; Zbl 1347.20044)], this result has been extended to braid groups on at most 6 strands. The article under review is dedicated to proving the following result (Theorem 3.11): The diagonal link of \(\mathcal{NCP}_{7}\) endowed with the spherical orthoscheme metric is \(\mathrm{CAT}(1)\), which implies that the Brady-McCammond complex associated to \(B_{7}\) is \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\) and hence that \(B_{7}\) is a \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\)-group.

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