Injective labeled oriented trees are aspherical

Jens Harlander, Stephan Rosebrock

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Abstract

A labeled oriented tree is called injective, if each vertex occurs at most once as an edge label. We show that injective labeled oriented trees are aspherical. The proof uses a new relative asphericity test based on a lemma of Stallings.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)199-214
Number of pages16
JournalMathematische Zeitschrift
Volume287
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 22 Dec 2017

Keywords

  • 2-Complex
  • Asphericity
  • Labeled oriented tree
  • Wirtinger presentation

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