Aspherical word labeled oriented graphs and cyclically presented groups

Jens Harlander, Stephan Rosebrock

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Abstract

A word labeled oriented graph (WLOG) is an oriented graph G{script} on vertices X = {x1,⋯,xn}, where each oriented edge is labeled by a word in X±1. WLOGs give rise to presentations which generalize Wirtinger presentations of knots. WLOG presentations, where the underlying graph is a tree, are of central importance in view of Whitehead's Asphericity Conjecture. We present a class of aspherical word labeled oriented graphs. This class can be used to produce highly non-injective aspherical labeled oriented trees and also aspherical cyclically presented groups.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1550025
JournalJournal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications
Volume24
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Apr 2015

Keywords

  • 2-complex
  • asphericity
  • cyclically presented group
  • labeled oriented graph
  • Labeled oriented tree

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