On the virtually-cyclic dimension of surface braid groups and right-angled Artin groups

Abstract

We give a bound for the virtually cyclic dimension of groups with a normal subgroup of finite index which satisfies that every infinite virtually-cyclic subgroup is contained in a unique maximal such subgroup. As an application we provide a bound for the virtually-cyclic dimension for the braid group of a closed surface with genus greater than 2 and for right-angled Artin groups.