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On right-angled Artin groups without surface subgroups

Group Theory 2010-12-03 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We study the class N of graphs, the right-angled Artin groups defined on which do not contain surface subgroups. We prove that a presumably smaller class N' is closed under amalgamating along complete subgraphs, and also under adding bisimplicial edges. It follows that chordal graphs and chordal bipartite graphs belong to N'.

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@article{arxiv.0811.1946,
  title  = {On right-angled Artin groups without surface subgroups},
  author = {Sang-hyun Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1946},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

29 pages, 14 figures. Proof of Lemma 3.6 is simplified; several typos are corrected

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