English

Cyclic amalgams, HNN extensions, and Garside one-relator groups

Group Theory 2020-06-04 v5

Abstract

Garside groups are a natural lattice-theoretic generalisation of the braid groups and spherical type Artin--Tits groups. Here we show that the class of Garside groups is closed under some free products with cyclic amalgamated subgroups. We deduce that every tree product of infinite cyclic groups is a Garside group. Moreover, we study those cyclic HNN extensions of Garside groups that are Garside groups as well. Using a theorem of Pietrowski, we conclude this paper by stating that a non-cyclic one-relator group is Garside if and only if its centre is nontrivial.

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@article{arxiv.1306.5724,
  title  = {Cyclic amalgams, HNN extensions, and Garside one-relator groups},
  author = {Matthieu Picantin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.5724},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

24 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. Major revision

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