Presentations for subgroups of Artin groups

Dicks, Warren; Leary, Ian

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-99-04873-X

Presentations for subgroups of Artin groups
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 343-348 Request permission

Abstract:

Recently, M. Bestvina and N. Brady have exhibited groups that are of type $FP$ but not finitely presented. We give explicit presentations for groups of the type considered by Bestvina-Brady. This leads to algebraic proofs of some of their results.

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