The genus of the configuration spaces for Artin groups of affine type

  • Davide Moroni

    National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Pisa, Italy
  • Mario Salvetti

    Università di Pisa, Italy
  • Andrea Villa

    ISI Foundation, Torino, Italy

Abstract

Let be a Coxeter system, finite, and let be the associated Artin group. One has _ configuration spaces_ where and a natural -covering The_Schwarz genus_ is a natural topological invariant to consider. In [DS00] it was computed for all finite-type Artin groups, with the exception of case (for which see [Vas92],[DPS04]). In this paper we generalize this result by computing the Schwarz genus for a class of Artin groups, which includes the affine-type Artin groups. Let be the simplicial scheme of all subsets such that the parabolic group is finite. We introduce the class of groups for which equals the homological dimension of and we show that is always the maximum possible for such class of groups. For affine Artin groups, such maximum reduces to the rank of the group. In general, it is given by where is a well-known -complex which has the same homotopy type as .

Cite this article

Davide Moroni, Mario Salvetti, Andrea Villa, The genus of the configuration spaces for Artin groups of affine type. Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Natur. 25 (2014), no. 3, pp. 233–248

DOI 10.4171/RLM/676