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We prove that every right-angled Artin group embeds into the C ∞ diffeomorphism group of the real line. As a corollary, we show every limit group, and more generally every countable residually RAAG group, embeds into the C ∞ diffeomorphism group of the real line.
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Baik, H., Kim, Sh. & Koberda, T. Right-angled Artin groups in the C ∞ diffeomorphism group of the real line. Isr. J. Math. 213, 175–182 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-016-1307-8
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