Powers of Dehn twists generating right-angled Artin groups

DOI10.2140/AGT.2021.21.1511MaRDI QIDQ6324872arXivFDO

Authors Donggyun Seo

Publication date 8 September 2019

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Geometric group theory (20F65) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: We give a bound for the exponents of powers of Dehn twists to generate a right-angled Artin group. Precisely, if $mathcalF$ is a finite collection of pairwise distinct simple closed curves on a finite type surface and if $N$ denotes the maximum of the intersection numbers of all pairs of curves in $mathcalF$, then we prove that $T_{g}amm{a}^n,vert,gammainmathcalF$ generates a right-angled Artin group for all $ngeq{N}^2+N+3$. This extends a previous result of Koberda, who proved the existence of a bound possibly depending on the underlying hyperbolic structure of the surface. In the course of the proof, we obtain a universal bound depending only on the topological type of the surface in certain cases, which partially answers a question due to Koberda.

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