The algebraic structure of hyperbolic graph braid groups

DOI10.1142/S0218196724500528MaRDI QIDQ6987064zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Benjamin Appiah, Pallavi Dani, Wayne Ge, Christopher Hudson, Saumya Jain, Matthew Lemoine, Jake Murphy, Justin Murray, Adithyan Pandikkadan, Kevin Schreve, Huong Vo

Publication date 7 May 2025

Published in International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218196724500528

zbMATH Keywords

graph braid grouphyperbolic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

Review text

This paper investigates the structure of \(3\)-strand graph braid groups associated with sun and pulsar graphs, continuing the study initiated by \textit{A. Genevois} [Int. J. Algebra Comput. 31, No. 1, 81--116 (2021; Zbl 1491.20090)], who classified all graphs whose braid groups are word hyperbolic. The authors confirm a conjecture posed in [loc. cit.] by proving that 3-strand braid groups of sun graphs are free, and establish that the corresponding groups for pulsar graphs almost always contain surface subgroups. In particular, they show that the configuration space of three points on the generalized theta graph~\(\Theta_4\) is a closed orientable surface of genus~\(3\). Using PL Morse theory, they further derive a free product decomposition for these groups, highlighting structural differences between sun and pulsar graph braid groups.

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