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Subgroups of right-angled Coxeter groups via Stallings-like techniques

Geometric Topology 2021-04-14 v3 Group Theory

Abstract

We associate cube complexes called completions to each subgroup of a right-angled Coxeter group (RACG). A completion characterizes many properties of the subgroup such as whether it is quasiconvex, normal, finite-index or torsion-free. We use completions to show that reflection subgroups are quasiconvex, as are one-ended Coxeter subgroups of a 2-dimensional RACG. We provide an algorithm that determines whether a given one-ended, 2-dimensional RACG is isomorphic to some finite-index subgroup of another given RACG. In addition, we answer several algorithmic questions regarding quasiconvex subgroups. Finally, we give a new proof of Haglund's result that quasiconvex subgroups of RACGs are separable.

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@article{arxiv.1908.09046,
  title  = {Subgroups of right-angled Coxeter groups via Stallings-like techniques},
  author = {Pallavi Dani and Ivan Levcovitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.09046},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

44 pages, 7 figures. Incorporated referee's comments, added references and new examples. To appear in Journal of Combinatorial Algebra

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