A Deligne complex for Artin Monoids

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2021.03.015arXiv2007.12156WikidataQ115019750 ScholiaQ115019750MaRDI QIDQ6345720FDOQ6345720

Rose Morris-Wright, Rachael Boyd, Ruth Charney

Publication date: 23 July 2020

Abstract: In this paper we introduce and study some geometric objects associated to Artin monoids. The Deligne complex for an Artin group is a cube complex that was introduced by the second author and Davis (1995) to study the K(pi,1) conjecture for these groups. Using a notion of Artin monoid cosets, we construct a version of the Deligne complex for Artin monoids. We show that for any Artin monoid this cube complex is contractible. Furthermore, we study the embedding of the monoid Deligne complex into the Deligne complex for the corresponding Artin group. We show that for any Artin group this is a locally isometric embedding. In the case of FC-type Artin groups this result can be strengthened to a globally isometric embedding, and it follows that the monoid Deligne complex is CAT(0) and its image in the Deligne complex is convex. We also consider the Cayley graph of an Artin group, and investigate properties of the subgraph spanned by elements of the Artin monoid. Our final results show that for a finite type Artin group, the monoid Cayley graph embeds isometrically, but not quasi-convexly, into the group Cayley graph.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Algebraic monoids (20M32)

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