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Fixed subgroups in Artin groups

Group Theory 2024-07-17 v1

Abstract

We study fixed subgroups of automorphisms of any large-type Artin group AΓA_{\Gamma}. We define a natural subgroup AutΓ(AΓ)\mathrm{Aut}_\Gamma(A_\Gamma) of Aut(AΓ)\mathrm{Aut}(A_{\Gamma}), and for every γAutΓ(AΓ)\gamma \in \mathrm{Aut}_\Gamma(A_\Gamma) we find the isomorphism type of Fix(γ)\mathrm{Fix}(\gamma) and a generating set for a finite index subgroup. We show that Fix(γ)\mathrm{Fix}(\gamma) is a finitely generated Artin group, with a uniform bound on the rank in terms of the number of vertices of Γ\Gamma. Finally, we provide a natural geometric characterisation of the subgroup AutΓ(AΓ)\mathrm{Aut}_\Gamma(A_\Gamma), which informally is the maximal subgroup of Aut(AΓ)\mathrm{Aut}(A_\Gamma) leaving the Deligne complex of AΓA_{\Gamma} invariant.

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@article{arxiv.2407.11839,
  title  = {Fixed subgroups in Artin groups},
  author = {Oli Jones and Nicolas Vaskou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.11839},
  year   = {2024}
}
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