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Higher generating subgroups and Cohen-Macaulay complexes

Group Theory 2020-08-07 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

We show how to find higher generating families of subgroups, in the sense of Abels and Holz, for groups acting on Cohen-Macaulay complexes. We apply this to groups with a BN-pair to prove higher generation by parabolic and Levi-subgroups and describe higher generating families of parabolic subgroups in Aut(F_n).

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@article{arxiv.1901.04204,
  title  = {Higher generating subgroups and Cohen-Macaulay complexes},
  author = {Benjamin Brück},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.04204},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

9 pages; v2: added homological versions of results concerning CM complexes; v3: final version, to appear in Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society

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