Relative Non-Positive Immersion

MaRDI QIDQ6423383zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jens Harlander, Stephan Rosebrock

Publication date 14 January 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local properties of groups (20E25) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: A 2-complex $K$ has collapsing non-positive immersion if for every combinatorial immersion $XoK$, where $X$ is finite, connected and does not allow collapses, either $chi(X)le0$ or $X$ is point. This concept is due to Wise who also showed that this property implies local indicability of the fundamental group $p{i}_1(K)$. In this paper we study a relative version of collapsing non-positive immersion that can be applied to 2-complex pairs $(L,K)$: The pair has relative collapsing non-positive immersion if for every combinatorial immersion $fcolonXoL$, where $X$ is finite, connected and does not allow collapses, either $chi(X)lechi(Y)$, where $Y$ is the essential part of the preimage $f^{-1}(K)$, or $X$ is a point. We show that under certain conditions a transitivity law holds: If $(L,K)$ has relative collapsing non-positive immersion and $K$ has collapsing non-positive immersion, then $L$ has collapsing non-positive immersion. This article is partly motivated by the following open question: Do reduced injective labeled oriented trees have collapsing non-positive immersion? We answer this question in the affirmative for certain important special cases.

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