We study those Artin groups which, modulo their centers, are finite index subgroups of the mapping class group of a punctured sphere. In particular, we show that any injective homomorphism between these groups is parameterized by a homeomorphism of a punctured disk together with a homomorphism to the integers. The technique, following Ivanov, is to prove that every superinjective map of the com...

Let (W, S) be a Coxeter system, with W a finite, irreducible Coxeter group and let GW be the associated Artin group (see Bourbaki [5] for an introduction to Coxeter groups and their classifications and Brieskorn and Saito [6] for relations between Coxeter groups and Artin groups ). The main objects of study of this paper are the Artin groups of type An . We recall that the Artin group GAn is th...

The Coxeter groups that act geometrically on euclidean space have long been classified and presentations for the irreducible ones are encoded in the well-known extended Dynkin diagrams. The corresponding Artin groups are called euclidean Artin groups and, despite what one might naively expect, most of them have remained fundamentally mysterious for more than forty years. Recently, my coauthors ...

We find a condition on the underlying graph of an Artin group that fully determines if it is subgroup separable. As consequence, separable and only can be obtained from groups ranks at most 2 via finite sequence free products direct with infinite cyclic group. This result generalizes Metaftsis-Raptis criterion for Right-Angled groups.

1 0.1. Braid groups 1 0.2. Artin–Tits groups 2 1. The general case 2 1.1. The word reversing technique 3 1.2. Artin–Tits monoids 4 1.3. Artin–Tits groups 5 1.4. Exercises 5 2. The spherical case 6 2.1. Background about Coxeter groups 6 2.2. Garside structure 7 2.3. Normal form 7 2.4. Exercises 8 3. The braid case 9 3.1. The Artin representation 10 3.2. Handle reduction 11 3.3. The braid orderin...