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Injective Labeled Oriented Trees are Aspherical

Geometric Topology 2016-11-07 v6

Abstract

A labeled oriented tree is called injective if each generator occurs at most once as an edge label. We show that injective labeled oriented trees are aspherical. The proof relies on a new relative asphericity test based on a lemma of Stallings.

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@article{arxiv.1212.1943,
  title  = {Injective Labeled Oriented Trees are Aspherical},
  author = {Jens Harlander and Stephan Rosebrock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.1943},
  year   = {2016}
}

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25 pages, 9 figures

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