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Injectivity on the set of conjugacy classes of some monomorphisms between Artin groups

Geometric Topology 2011-11-08 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

There are well-known monomorphisms between the Artin groups of finite type \arAn\arA_n, \arBn=\arCn\arB_n=\arC_n and affine type \arA~n1\tilde \arA_{n-1}, \arC~n1\tilde\arC_{n-1}. The Artin group A(\arAn)A(\arA_n) is isomorphic to the (n+1)(n+1)-strand braid group Bn+1B_{n+1}, and the other three Artin groups are isomorphic to some subgroups of Bn+1B_{n+1}. The inclusions between these subgroups yield monomorphisms A(\arBn)A(\arAn)A(\arB_n)\to A(\arA_n), A(\arA~n1)A(\arBn)A(\tilde \arA_{n-1})\to A(\arB_n) and A(\arC~n1)A(\arBn)A(\tilde \arC_{n-1})\to A(\arB_n). There are another type of monomorphisms A(\arBd)A(\arAmd1)A(\arB_d)\to A(\arA_{md-1}), A(\arBd)A(\arBmd)A(\arB_d)\to A(\arB_{md}) and A(\arBd)A(\arAmd)A(\arB_d)\to A(\arA_{md}) which are induced by isomorphisms between Artin groups of type \arB\arB and centralizers of periodic braids. In this paper, we show that the monomorphisms A(\arBd)A(\arAmd1)A(\arB_d)\to A(\arA_{md-1}), A(\arBd)A(\arBmd)A(\arB_d)\to A(\arB_{md}) and A(\arBd)A(\arAmd)A(\arB_d)\to A(\arA_{md}) induce injective functions on the set of conjugacy classes, and that none of the monomorphisms A(\arBn)A(\arAn)A(\arB_n)\to A(\arA_n), A(\arA~n1)A(\arBn)A(\tilde \arA_{n-1})\to A(\arB_n) and A(\arC~n1)A(\arBn)A(\tilde \arC_{n-1})\to A(\arB_n) does so.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0802.2314,
  title  = {Injectivity on the set of conjugacy classes of some monomorphisms between Artin groups},
  author = {Eon-Kyung Lee and Sang-Jin Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.2314},
  year   = {2011}
}

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27 pages, 16 figures, published version