Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2020
It is conjectured that the central quotient of any irreducible Artin–Tits group is either virtually cyclic or acylindrically hyperbolic. We prove this conjecture for Artin–Tits groups that are known to be CAT(0) groups by a result of Brady and McCammond, that is, Artin–Tits groups associated with graphs having no 3-cycles and Artin–Tits groups of almost large type associated with graphs admitting appropriate directions. In particular, the latter family contains Artin–Tits groups of large type associated with cones over square-free bipartite graphs.
The first author is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, Grant Number 19K23406 and JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists, Grant Number 20K14311.
The second author is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Grant Number 16K17595 and 20K03590.