The Bieri-Neumann-Strebel invariant of the pure symmetric automorphisms of a right-angled artin group

Abstract

We compute the BNS-invariant for the pure symmetric automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups. We use this calculation to show that the pure symmetric automorphism group of a right-angled Artin group is itself not a right-angled Artin group provided that its defining graph contains a separating intersection of links.