Canonical Reduction Systems in Artin-Tits groups of spherical type

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Main Authors: Cumplido, María, González-Meneses, Juan, Perego, Davide
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author Cumplido, María
González-Meneses, Juan
Perego, Davide
author_facet Cumplido, María
González-Meneses, Juan
Perego, Davide
contents We introduce the canonical reduction system of an element in an Artin-Tits group of spherical type, which generalizes the similar notion for braids (and mapping classes) introduced by Birman, Lubotzky and McCarthy. We show its basic properties, which coincide with those satisfied in braid groups, and we provide an algorithm to compute it. We improve the algorithm in the case of braid groups, and discuss its complexity in this case. As a necessary result for obtaining the general algorithm, we prove that the centralizers of positive powers of an element form a periodic sequence and we show how to compute its period.
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spellingShingle Canonical Reduction Systems in Artin-Tits groups of spherical type
Cumplido, María
González-Meneses, Juan
Perego, Davide
Group Theory
Geometric Topology
20F36, 57K20
We introduce the canonical reduction system of an element in an Artin-Tits group of spherical type, which generalizes the similar notion for braids (and mapping classes) introduced by Birman, Lubotzky and McCarthy. We show its basic properties, which coincide with those satisfied in braid groups, and we provide an algorithm to compute it. We improve the algorithm in the case of braid groups, and discuss its complexity in this case. As a necessary result for obtaining the general algorithm, we prove that the centralizers of positive powers of an element form a periodic sequence and we show how to compute its period.
title Canonical Reduction Systems in Artin-Tits groups of spherical type
topic Group Theory
Geometric Topology
20F36, 57K20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00713