The special 4-cycle center conjecture for Artin complexes

Let ASA_S be an Artin group whose Coxeter diagram is a tree. A vertex of the Artin complex ΔS\Delta_S is of type s^=S{s}\hat s=S\setminus\{s\} if it corresponds to a coset of the form gAS{s}gA_{S\setminus\{s\}}. A special 44-cycle in ΔS\Delta_S is an embedded 44-cycle in the 11-skeleton ΔS1\Delta_S^1 whose vertex types alternate as s^t^s^t^\hat s\hat t\hat s\hat t for some s,tSs,t\in S. Such a cycle has a center if its vertices are adjacent to a common vertex in ΔS\Delta_S. Special 4-cycle center conjecture. Any special 44-cycle in ΔS\Delta_S has a center.

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Jingyin Huang, “Bestvina metric and tree reduction for K(π,1)-conjecture”, arXiv:2602.17982 (2026).

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