Right-angled Artin subgroups and free products in one-relator groups

Abstract: We investigate criteria ensuring that a one-relator group $G$ contains a right-angled Artin subgroup $A(\Gamma)$, corresponding to a finite graph $\Gamma$. In particular, we prove that if the positive submonoid $T(\Gamma)$, of $A(\Gamma)$, embeds into $G$ then so does all of $A(\Gamma)$, unless $\Gamma$ is totally disconnected. As by-products of our methods we obtain characterisations of one-relator groups that have property $P_{nai}$ and that are $C^*$-simple.