Graph braid groups and right-angled Artin groups

Kim, Jee Hyoun; Ko, Ki Hyoung; Park, Hyo Won

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-2011-05399-7

Graph braid groups and right-angled Artin groups

Authors: Jee Hyoun Kim, Ki Hyoung Ko and Hyo Won Park
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 364 (2012), 309-360
MSC (2010): Primary 20F36, 20F65, 57M15
Published electronically: August 2, 2011
MathSciNet review: 2833585
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Abstract: We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a graph to have a right-angled Artin group as its braid group for braid index $\ge 5$ . In order to have the necessity part, graphs are organized into small classes so that one of the homological or cohomological characteristics of right-angled Artin groups can be applied. Finally we show that a given graph is planar iff the first homology of its 2-braid group is torsion-free, and we leave the corresponding statement for -braid groups as a conjecture along with a few other conjectures about graphs whose braid groups of index $\le 4$ are right-angled Artin groups.

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Jee Hyoun Kim
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea
Email: kimjeehyoun@kaist.ac.kr

Ki Hyoung Ko
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea
Email: knot@kaist.ac.kr

Hyo Won Park
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea
Email: H.W.Park@kaist.ac.kr

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-2011-05399-7
Keywords: Braid group, right-angled Artin group, discrete Morse theory, planar, graph
Received by editor(s): August 11, 2009
Received by editor(s) in revised form: May 24, 2010, June 6, 2010, and June 12, 2010
Published electronically: August 2, 2011
Additional Notes: This work was supported by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) grant funded by the Korea government (MOST) (No. R01-2006-000-10152-0)
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