Full-featured peak reduction in right-angled Artin groups

Day, Matthew B

doi:10.2140/agt.2014.14.1677

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Full-featured peak reduction in right-angled Artin groups

Matthew B Day

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 14 (2014) 1677–1743

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2014.14.1677

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 $A_{Γ}$ on the set of $k$ –tuples of conjugacy classes from $A_{Γ}$ : 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. 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.

Keywords

Whitehead algorithm, peak reduction, automorphism groups of groups, right-angled Artin groups, raags, Hermite normal form

Mathematical Subject Classification 2010

Primary: 20F36

Secondary: 20F28, 15A36

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Received: 5 April 2013

Revised: 19 November 2013

Accepted: 20 November 2013

Published: 29 May 2014

Authors

Matthew B Day
Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Arkansas SCEN 301 Fayetteville, AR 72701 United States
http://comp.uark.edu/~matthewd/

Volume 14, issue 3 (2014)