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We prove Farber's conjecture on the stable topological complexity of configuration spaces of graphs. The conjecture follows from a general lower bound derived from recent insights into the topological complexity of aspherical spaces. Our…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Ben Knudsen

We extend the characterization of stable subgroups of right-angled Artin groups of Koberda, Mangahas and Taylor to the case of graph products of infinite groups. Specifically, we show that the stable subgroups of such graph products are…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Sahana H Balasubramanya , Marissa Chesser , Alice Kerr , Johanna Mangahas , Marie Trin

A $biased\ graph$ is a pair $(G,\mathcal{B})$, where $G$ is a graph and $\mathcal{B}$ is a collection of `balanced' circuits of $G$ such that no $\Theta$-subgraph of $G$ contains precisely two balanced circuits. We prove a Ramsey-type…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Peter Nelson , Sophia Park

We study several natural decision problems in braid groups and Artin groups. We classify the Artin groups with decidable submonoid membership problem in terms of the non-existence of certain forbidden induced subgraphs of the defining…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Robert D. Gray , Carl-Fredrik Nyberg-Brodda

We consider the class of finitely generated groups whose relators are powers of commutators of the generators. This class contains as a small subclass graph groups (also called RAAGs), namely if all powers are one. Graph groups are the only…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Arkadius Kalka

A graph is one-ended if it contains a ray (a one way infinite path) and whenever we remove a finite number of vertices from the graph then what remains has only one component which contains rays. A vertex $v$ {\em dominates} a ray in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Johannes Carmesin , Florian Lehner , Rögnvaldur G. Möller

We introduce and study asymptotically rigid mapping class groups of certain infinite graphs. We determine their finiteness properties and show that these depend on the number of ends of the underlying graph. In a special case where the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Thomas Hill , Sanghoon Kwak , Brian Udall , Jeremy West

A representation for compact 3-manifolds with non-empty non-spherical boundary via 4-colored graphs (i.e., 4-regular graphs endowed with a proper edge-coloration with four colors) has been recently introduced by two of the authors, and an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-12-06 P. Cristofori , E. Fominykh , M. Mulazzani , V. Tarkaev

In this article we prove theorem on Lifting for the set of virtual pure braid groups. This theorem says that if we know presentation of virtual pure braid group $VP_4$, then we can find presentation of $VP_n$ for arbitrary $n > 4$. Using…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Valeriy G. Bardakov , Jie Wu

We show that every trivial 3-strand braid diagram contains a disk, defined as a ribbon ending in opposed crossings. Under a convenient algebraic form, the result extends to every Artin--Tits group of dihedral type, but it fails to extend to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Patrick Dehornoy

A balanced graph is a bipartite graph with no induced circuit of length 2 mod 4. These graphs arise in linear programming. We focus on graph-algebraic properties of balanced graphs to prove a complete classification of balanced Cayley…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-07-03 Joy Morris , Pablo Spiga , Kerri Webb

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…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-12-03 Sang-hyun Kim

We give criteria for deciding whether or not a triangle-free simple graph is the presentation graph of a right-angled Coxeter group that is quasiisometric to some right-angled Artin group, and, if so, producing a presentation graph for such…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Christopher H. Cashen , Pallavi Dani , Alexandra Edletzberger , Annette Karrer

The theory of Dvorak, Kral, and Thomas (2015) shows that a 4-critical triangle-free graph embedded in the torus has only a bounded number of faces of length greater than 4 and that the size of these faces is also bounded. We study the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Zdeněk Dvořák , Jakub Pekárek

A finitely presented Bestvina-Brady group (BBG) admits a presentation involving only commutators. We show that if a graph admits a certain type of spanning trees, then the associated BBG is a right-angled Artin group (RAAG). As an…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Yu-Chan Chang , Lorenzo Ruffoni

We show that, for any number of components, the group of braids up to link-homotopy is torsion-free. This generalizes a result of Humphries up to six components, and provides an explicit solution to a question posed by Lin and addressed by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Emmanuel Graff

Let $C_{s,t}$ be the complete bipartite geometric graph, with $s$ and $t$ vertices on two distinct parallel lines respectively, and all $s t$ straight-line edges drawn between them. In this paper, we show that every complete bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Balázs Keszegh , Andrew Suk , Gábor Tardos , Ji Zeng

The classical Whitney's 2-Isomorphism Theorem describes the families of graphs having the same cycle matroid. In this paper we describe the families of graphs having the same truncated cycle matroid and prove, in particular, that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Jose De Jesus , Alexander Kelmans

The aim of this paper is to analyse algorithms for constructing presentations of graph braid groups from the point of view of anyonic quantum statistics on graphs. In the first part of this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Tomasz Maciążek

We design an algorithm writing down presentations of graph braid groups. Generators are represented in terms of actual motions of robots moving without collisions on a given graph. A key ingredient is a new motion planning algorithm whose…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-08-10 V. Kurlin