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Linearity of graph products

Group Theory 2022-03-09 v1

Abstract

In this work we prove that, given a simplicial graph Γ\Gamma and a family G\mathcal{G} of linear groups over a domain RR, the graph product ΓG\Gamma\mathcal{G} is linear over R[t]R[\underline t], where t\underline t is a tuple of finitely many linearly independent variables. As a consequence we obtain that any graph product of finitely many groups linear over the complex numbers is again a linear group over the complex numbers. This solves an open problem of Hsu and Wise in the case of faithful representations over C\mathbb C.

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@article{arxiv.1906.11958,
  title  = {Linearity of graph products},
  author = {Federico Berlai and Javier de la Nuez González},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.11958},
  year   = {2022}
}
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