Right-angled Artin groups and curve graphs of nonorientable surfaces

DOI10.1007/S10711-023-00788-WMaRDI QIDQ6163399zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Takuya Katayama, Erika Kuno

Publication date 9 June 2023

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.07559

zbMATH Keywords

curve graphsmapping class groupsnonorientable surfacesright-angled Artin groupstwo-sided curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Geometric group theory (20F65) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

Abstract: Let $N$ be a closed nonorientable surface with or without marked points. In this paper we prove that, for every finite full subgraph $Gamma$ of $mathcal{C}^{mathrmtwo}(N)$, the right-angled Artin group on $Gamma$ can be embedded in the mapping class group of $N$. Here, $mathcal{C}^{mathrmtwo}(N)$ is the subgraph, induced by essential two-sided simple closed curves in $N$, of the ordinal curve graph $mathcalC(N)$. In addition, we show that there exists a finite graph $Gamma$ which is not a full subgraph of $mathcal{C}^{mathrmtwo}(N)$ for some $N$, but the right-angled Artin group on $Gamma$ can be embedded in the mapping class group of $N$.

Review text

Let \(\Gamma\) be a finite simplicial graph, \(V(\Gamma)=\{v_{1},v_{2}, \dots,v_{n}\}\) be the vertex set of \(\Gamma\) and \(E(\Gamma)\) be the edge set of \(\Gamma\). Then the right-angled Artin group is the group given by the following presentation: \[ A(\Gamma)=\big \langle v_{1},v_{2}, \dots,v_{n} \; \big | \; [v_{i},v_{j}]=1 \text{ iff } \{v_{i}, v_{j} \} \in E(\Gamma) \big \rangle. \] Let \(N\) be a closed nonorientable surface and let \(\mathcal{C}^{\mathrm{two}}(N)\) be the subgraph, induced by essential two-sided simple closed curves in \(N\), of the ordinary curve graph \(\mathcal{C}(N)\). In this paper, the authors prove that, for every finite full subgraph \(\Gamma\) of \(\mathcal{C}^{\mathrm{two}}(N)\), the right-angled Artin group \(A(\Gamma)\) can be embedded in the mapping class group of \(N\). In addition, they show that there exists a finite graph \(\Gamma\) which is not a full subgraph of \(\mathcal{C}^{\mathrm{two}}(N)\) for some \(N\), but the right-angled Artin group on \(\Gamma\) can be embedded in the mapping class group of \(N\).

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