Systolic complexes and group presentations

Abstract

We give conditions on a presentation of a group, which imply that its Cayley complex is simplicial, and the flag complex of the Cayley complex is systolic. We then apply this to Garside groups and Artin groups. We give a classification of the Garside groups whose presentation using the simple elements as generators satisfy our conditions. We then also give a dual presentation for Artin groups and identify in which cases the flag complex of the Cayley complex is systolic.