Almeida's disconnected living-subgraph conjecture for Artin groups

Let AΓA_\Gamma be an Artin group and let χ:AΓR\chi:A_\Gamma\to\mathbb{R} be a character. Let Livχ\mathrm{Liv}^\chi denote the living subgraph associated to χ\chi, and let Σ1(AΓ)\Sigma^1(A_\Gamma) be the first Bieri-Neumann-Strebel invariant. Almeida's conjecture.

Livχ is disconnected [χ]Σ1(AΓ).\mathrm{Liv}^\chi\text{ is disconnected }\Rightarrow[\chi]\notin\Sigma^1(A_\Gamma).

Together with the known implications recalled from Meier's proposition, this is equivalent to the full Σ1\Sigma^1-conjecture stated earlier. The source says the problem was explicitly formulated as a conjecture in 2018 and does not report a general resolution.

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Primary source

Marcos Escartín Ferrer, “On the Σ^1 and Σ^2-invariants of Artin groups”, arXiv:2501.08692 (2025).

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