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Basic Questions on Artin-Tits groups

Group Theory 2011-05-06 v1

Abstract

This paper is a short survey on four basic questions on Artin-Tits groups: the torsion, the center, the word problem, and the cohomology (K(π,1)K(\pi,1) problem). It is also an opportunity to prove three new results concerning these questions: (1) if all free of infinity Artin-Tits groups are torsion free, then all Artin-Tits groups will be torsion free; (2) If all free of infinity irreducible non-spherical type Artin-Tits groups have a trivial center then all irreducible non-spherical type Artin-Tits groups will have a trivial center; (3) if all free of infinity Artin-Tits groups have solutions to the word problem, then all Artin-Tits groups will have solutions to the word problem. Recall that an Artin-Tits group is free of infinity if its Coxeter graph has no edge labeled by \infty.

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@article{arxiv.1105.1048,
  title  = {Basic Questions on Artin-Tits groups},
  author = {Eddy Godelle and Luis Paris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.1048},
  year   = {2011}
}
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