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No Uncountable Polish Group Can be a Right-Angled Artin Group

Logic 2017-04-04 v5

Abstract

We prove that no uncountable Polish group can admit a system of generators whose associated length function satisfies the following conditions: (i) if 0<k<ω0 < k < \omega, then lg(x)lg(xk)lg(x) \leq lg(x^k); (ii) if lg(y)<k<ωlg(y) < k < \omega and xk=yx^k = y, then x=ex = e. In particular, the automorphism group of a countable structure cannot be an uncountable right-angled Artin group. This generalizes results from [3] and [5], where this is proved for free and free Abelian uncountable groups.

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@article{arxiv.1701.03021,
  title  = {No Uncountable Polish Group Can be a Right-Angled Artin Group},
  author = {Gianluca Paolini and Saharon Shelah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.03021},
  year   = {2017}
}