On subgroups of Coxeter groups

dc.creatorDicks, Warren
dc.creatorLeary, Ian J
dc.date2007-11-30
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dc.descriptionA right-angled Coxeter group is a group with a given set of generators of order two, subject only to the relations that certain pairs of the generators commute. Various papers have shown how homological properties of the Coxeter group are related to homological properties of the simplicial complex whose simplices are the sets of commuting generators. Using these techniques, we construct torsion-free groups which are Poincare duality groups over some rings but not over others, and a group whose integral cohomological dimension is finite but strictly greater than its cohomological dimension over any field. We determine which Coxeter groups have finite virtual cohomological dimension (it is classical that all finitely generated Coxeter groups have finite vcd, but there are others). We also give minimal presentations for certain torsion-free finite-index subgroups of right-angled Coxter groups. Finally we give a `bare-hands' construction (using free products with amalgamation and HNN extensions) of a torsion-free group whose integral cohomological dimension is strictly greater than its rational cohomological dimension.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0711.5011
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0711.5011
dc.identifierGeometry and Cohomology in Group Theory, Durham 1995, LMS Lecture Notes in Mathematics 252, CUP 1998, 124-160
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/143267
dc.subjectGroup Theory
dc.subject20F55; 20F65
dc.titleOn subgroups of Coxeter groups
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