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Full-featured peak reduction in right-angled Artin groups

Group Theory 2014-10-01 v5

Abstract

We prove a new version of the classical peak-reduction theorem for automorphisms of free groups in the setting of right-angled Artin groups. We use this peak-reduction theorem to prove two important corollaries about the action of the automorphism group of a right-angled Artin group AΓA_\Gamma on the set of kk-tuples of conjugacy classes from AΓA_\Gamma: orbit membership is decidable, and stabilizers are finitely presentable. Further, we explain procedures for checking orbit membership and building presentations of stabilizers. This improves on a previous result of the author's. We overcome a technical difficulty from the previous work by considering infinite generating sets for the automorphism groups. The method also involves a variation on the Hermite normal form for matrices.

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@article{arxiv.1211.0078,
  title  = {Full-featured peak reduction in right-angled Artin groups},
  author = {Matthew B. Day},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0078},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

72 pages, 1 figure. Updated to incorporate referee comments

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