Note on the residual finiteness of Artin groups
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Note on the residual finiteness of Artin groups
zbMATH Open document ID: 1425.20020
author: Rubén Blasco-García
author: Arye Juhász
author: Luis Paris
published in: Journal of Group Theory
publication date: 2018-05-02T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08538
review text: Let \(S\) be a finite set. With \(S\) a symmetric square matrices \(M=(m_{s t})_{s,t\in S}\) (indexed by the elements of \(S\)) with \(m_{s t}\in \mathbb{N}\cup \{\infty \}\) and \(m_{s s}=1\) and \(m_{s t}\geq 2\) for \(s\neq t\) can be associated. These kind of matrices are called Coxeter matrices. For each Coxeter matrix, a graph (Coxeter graph) \(\Gamma \) is associated. The set of vertices \(V(\Gamma )\) consists of the elements of \(S\), two vertices \(s\neq t\) are connected by an edge if \(m_{s t} \neq \infty \). Note that two Coxeter matrices \(M=(m_{s t})_{s,t\in S}\) and \(N=(n_{s t})_{s,t\in S}\) define the same Coxeter graph over the same finite set \(S\) if \(m_{s t}=\infty \) whenever \(n_{s t}=\infty \). The graph \(\Gamma \) is said to be even if \(m_{s t}\) is either even or \(\infty \) for all \(s, t\in S\), \(s\neq t\). The graph \(\Gamma \) is said to be triangle free if it has no full subgraph which is a triangle. Let \(a\) and \(b\) be two letters and \(m\) an integer greater than 1 then \(\prod (a,b : m)\) denotes the word \(aba\dots \) of length \(m\) (note that the word ends on \(a\) or \(b\) depending on \(m\) odd or even). The Artin group corresponding to a Coxeter graph \(\Gamma \) (which is associated with the Coxeter matrix \(M=(m_{s t})_{s,t\in S}\)) is the group with the presentation \(A=A_{\Gamma }=\langle S \mid \prod (s,t : m_{s t})=\prod (t,s : m_{s t})\) for all \(s,t\in S, s\neq t, m_{s t}\neq \infty \rangle \). Although in some cases Artin groups are residually finite (for example, Artin groups of spherical type, right-angled Artin groups and even Artin groups of FC type), the problem to decide for an Artin group to be residually finite remains open in general. This paper contributes to this direction. Let \(X \subset S\), \(\Gamma _{X}\) be the full subgraph of \(\Gamma \) spanned by \(X\) and \(A_{X}\) be the subgroup of \(A\) generated by \(X\). In [\textit{H. Van der Lek}, The homotopy type of complex hyperplane complement…
reviewed by: Dimitrios Varsos
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F36
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F24
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20E26
zbMATH DE Number: 6865790
zbMATH Keywords: Coxeter graphs
zbMATH Keywords: Artin groups
zbMATH Keywords: residually finite groups
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2962830936
arXiv ID: 1709.08538
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DOI: 10.1515/JGTH-2017-0049
description: scientific article