Abstract
A conjugation-free geometric presentation of a fundamental group is a presentation with the natural topological generators x1,..,x n and the cyclic relations: $$ x-{i-k}x-{i-{k-1}} \cdots xi1} = xik-1} \cdots xi1} xik} = \cdots = xi1} xik} \cdots xi2} $$ with no conjugations on the generators. We have already proved in [13] that if the graph of the arrangement is a disjoint union of cycles, then its fundamental group has a conjugation-free geometric presentation. In this paper, we extend this property to arrangements whose graphs are a disjoint union of cycle-tree graphs. Moreover, we study some properties of this type of presentations for a fundamental group of a line arrangement's complement. We show that these presentations satisfy a completeness property in the sense of Dehornoy, if the corresponding graph of the arrangement is triangle-free. The completeness property is a powerful property which leads to many nice properties concerning the presentation (such as the left-cancellativity of the associated monoid and yields some simple criterion for the solvability of the word problem in the group).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 775-792 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | International Journal of Algebra and Computation |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2011 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:‖Partially supported by the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.
Funding
‖Partially supported by the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.
| Funders |
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| Israeli ministry of science and technology |
Keywords
- Conjugation-free presentation
- complemented presentation
- complete presentation
- fundamental group
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