Local indicability in the presence of diagrammatic reducibility

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Main Authors: Harlander, Jens, Rosebrock, Stephan
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Rosebrock, Stephan
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Rosebrock, Stephan
contents If a complex $X$ is a subcomplex of a diagrammatically reducible 2-complex $Y$ that has locally indicable fundamental group, then $X$ has locally indicable fundamental group. This is a consequence of the Corson-Trace characterization of diagrammatic reducibility. In this paper we use a Corson-Trace like characterization of diagrammatic reducibility away from a subcomplex to obtain a considerable stronger result. We apply this to the question of local indicability in the context of Whitehead's asphericity conjecture. We show that an injective labeled oriented tree (LOT) that is diagrammatically reducible of degree 2, and all its quotients are as well, is locally indicable.
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spellingShingle Local indicability in the presence of diagrammatic reducibility
Harlander, Jens
Rosebrock, Stephan
Geometric Topology
Group Theory
57M07, 57M05, 20F05, 20F06, 20F65
If a complex $X$ is a subcomplex of a diagrammatically reducible 2-complex $Y$ that has locally indicable fundamental group, then $X$ has locally indicable fundamental group. This is a consequence of the Corson-Trace characterization of diagrammatic reducibility. In this paper we use a Corson-Trace like characterization of diagrammatic reducibility away from a subcomplex to obtain a considerable stronger result. We apply this to the question of local indicability in the context of Whitehead's asphericity conjecture. We show that an injective labeled oriented tree (LOT) that is diagrammatically reducible of degree 2, and all its quotients are as well, is locally indicable.
title Local indicability in the presence of diagrammatic reducibility
topic Geometric Topology
Group Theory
57M07, 57M05, 20F05, 20F06, 20F65
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15212