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Abelian splittings and JSJ-decompositions of finitely presented Bestvina–Brady groups

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Published/Copyright: January 5, 2023

Abstract

We give a characterization of finitely presented Bestvina–Brady groups which split over abelian subgroups and describe the JSJ-decompositions of those Bestvina–Brady groups.

Acknowledgements

The author thanks Pallavi Dani and Tullia Dymarz for their constant support. The author thanks Michael Hull for bringing Zaremsky’s work to his attention. The author is grateful for the referee’s valuable comments and suggestions.

  1. Communicated by: Alexander Olshanskii

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Received: 2021-12-28
Revised: 2022-08-31
Published Online: 2023-01-05
Published in Print: 2023-07-01

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