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Abstract for MSRI Preprint 2005-009

Algebraic invariants for right-angled Artin groups

Stefan Papadima and Alexander I. Suciu

A finite simplicial graph $\Gamma$ determines a right-angled Artin group $G_\Gamma$, with generators corresponding to the vertices of $\Gamma$, and with a relation $vw=wv$ for each pair of adjacent vertices. We compute the lower central series quotients, the Chen quotients, and the (first) resonance variety of $G_{\Gamma}$, directly from the graph $\Gamma$.