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Cycles in spherical Deligne complexes and application to $K(\pi,1)$-conjecture for Artin groups

Group Theory 2025-01-17 v3 Geometric Topology Metric Geometry

Abstract

We introduce a method of finding large non-positively curved subcomplexes in certain spherical Deligne complexes, which is effective for studying fillings of certain 6-cycles in spherical Deligne complexes. As applications, we show the K(π,1)K(\pi,1)-conjecture holds for all 3-dimensional hyperbolic type Artin groups, except one single example; and the conjecture holds for all quasi-Lann\'er hyperbolic type Artin groups up to dimension 4. In higher dimension, we show the K(π,1)K(\pi,1)-conjecture for Artin groups whose Coxeter diagrams are complete bipartite (edge labels can be arbitrary), answering a question of J. McCammond.

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@article{arxiv.2405.12068,
  title  = {Cycles in spherical Deligne complexes and application to $K(\pi,1)$-conjecture for Artin groups},
  author = {Jingyin Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.12068},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Many modifications to improve readability, shortened compared to the previous version