Semistability of Graph Products

DOI10.1080/00927872.2022.2149767MaRDI QIDQ6339322arXivFDO

Authors M. Mihalik

Publication date 23 April 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00927872.2022.2149767

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69)

arXiv classification

math.GR

Abstract: A {it graph product} $G$ on a graph $Gamma$ is a group defined as follows: For each vertex $v$ of $Gamma$ there is a corresponding non-trivial group $G_v$. The group $G$ is the quotient of the free product of the $G_v$ by the commutation relations $[G_v,G_w]=1$ for all adjacent $v$ and $w$ in $Gamma$. A finitely presented group $G$ has {it semistable fundamental group at $infty$} if for some (equivalently any) finite connected CW-complex $X$ with $p{i}_1(X)=G$, the universal cover $ildeX$ of $X$ has the property that any two proper rays in $ildeX$ are properly homotopic. The class of finitely presented groups with semistable fundamental group at $infty$ is known to contain many other classes of groups, but it is a 40 year old question as to whether or not all finitely presented groups have semistable fundamental group at $infty$. Our main theorem is a combination result. It states that if $G$ is a graph product on a finite graph $Gamma$ and each vertex group is finitely presented, then $G$ has non-semistable fundamental group at $infty$ if and only if there is a vertex $v$ of $Gamma$ such that $G_v$ is not semistable, and the subgroup of $G$ generated by the vertex groups of vertices adjacent to $v$ is finite (equivalently $lk(v)$ is a complete graph and each vertex group of $lk(v)$ is finite). Hence if one knows which vertex groups of $G$ are not semistable and which are finite, then an elementary inspection of $Gamma$ determines whether or not $G$ has semistable fundamental group at $infty$.

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