scholarly journals Calculating the virtual cohomological dimension of the automorphism group of a RAAG

Author(s):  
Matthew B. Day ◽  
Andrew W. Sale ◽  
Richard D. Wade
2017 ◽  
Vol 09 (01) ◽  
pp. 27-49
Author(s):  
P. de la Harpe ◽  
D. Kotschick

In various classes of infinite groups, we identify groups that are presentable by products, i.e. groups having finite index subgroups which are quotients of products of two commuting infinite subgroups. The classes we discuss here include groups of small virtual cohomological dimension and irreducible Zariski dense subgroups of appropriate algebraic groups. This leads to applications to groups of positive deficiency, to fundamental groups of three-manifolds and to Coxeter groups. For finitely generated groups presentable by products we discuss the problem of whether the factors in a presentation by products may be chosen to be finitely generated.


2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (06) ◽  
pp. 727-736
Author(s):  
JANG HYUN JO

We show that every finite group G has a set of cohomological elements satisfying ceratin algebraic property [Formula: see text] which can be regarded as a generalized notion of an algebraic counterpart to the topological phenomenon of free actions on finite dimensional homotopy spheres. We extend this result to a certain class of groups which contains groups of finite virtual cohomological dimension.


1999 ◽  
Vol 09 (02) ◽  
pp. 169-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. BENAKLI

In this paper, we study the topological properties of the hyperbolic boundaries of CAT(-1) Coxeter groups of virtual cohomological dimension 2. We will show how these properties are related to combinatorial properties of the associated Coxeter graph. More precisely, we investigate the connectedness, the local connectedness and the existence problem of local cut points. In the appendix, in a joint work with Z. Sela, we will construct the JSJ decomposition of the Coxeter groups for which the corresponding Coxeter graphs are complete bipartite graphs.


2004 ◽  
Vol 217 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Bayer-Fluckiger ◽  
Marina Monsurrò ◽  
R. Parimala ◽  
René Schoof

1996 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Nip Lee

Let Γ be a discrete group. Γ is said to have finite virtual cohomological dimension (vcd) if there exists a finite index torsion-free subgroup Γ′ of G such that Γ′ has finite cohomological dimension over ℤ. Examples of such groups include finite groups, fundamental group of a finite graph of finite groups, arithmetic groups, mapping class groups and outer automorphism groups of free groups. One of the fundamental problems in topology is to understand the cohomology of these finite vcd-groups.


2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-327
Author(s):  
Marek Golasiński ◽  
Daciberg Lima Gonçalves ◽  
Rolando Jimenez

Let G be a group acting freely, properly discontinuously and cellularly on some finite dimensional CW-complex Σ(2n) which has the homotopy type of the 2n-sphere 𝕊2n. Then, that action induces a homomorphism G → Aut(H2n(Σ(2n))). We classify all pairs (G, φ), where G is a virtually cyclic group and φ: G → Aut(ℤ) is a homomorphism, which are realizable in the way above and the homotopy types of all possible orbit spaces as well. Next, we consider the family of all groups which have virtual cohomological dimension one and which act on some Σ(2n). Those groups consist of free groups and semi-direct products F ⋊ ℤ2 with F a free group. For a group G from the family above and a homomorphism φ: G → Aut(ℤ), we present an algebraic criterion equivalent to the realizability of the pair (G, φ). It turns out that any realizable pair can be realized on some Σ(2n) with dim Σ(2n) ≤ 2n + 1.


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