Strong Contractions of Graphs and Right-Angled Artin Groups

Seminar: 
Group Actions and Dynamics
Event time: 
Monday, October 16, 2006 - 12:30pm to Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 8:00pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Sang-hyun Kim
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University
Event description: 

We show that a strong contraction on an anticonnected subset of a graph induces an injective map between right-angled Artin groups. As a result, we give a negative answer to a question raised by Gordon, Long and Reid.