%0 Journal Article %T On right-angled Artin groups without surface subgroups %A Sang-hyun Kim %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X We study the class N of graphs, the right-angled Artin groups defined on which do not contain surface subgroups. We prove that a presumably smaller class N' is closed under amalgamating along complete subgraphs, and also under adding bisimplicial edges. It follows that chordal graphs and chordal bipartite graphs belong to N'. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1946v2