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Amalgamated product acting on CAT(0) cube complex
I was reading the following result from the book Metric spaces of non-positive curvature by Bridson and Haefliger.
Result:
Let $F_0,F_1$ and $H$ be groups acting properly
by isometries on complete $...
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Example of CAT($k$) space [closed]
Good time of day. I repeat the question from MSE (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4464888/question-about-example-of-catk-space) because no response has been received.Question is the following:...
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Translation lengths in CAT(0) spaces
Let $a,b$ be two loxodromic isometries of a CAT(0) space. Assume that, for every $n \geq 1$, $a^nb$ is also loxodromic. Is it possible for the translation length of $a^nb$ to be bounded independently ...
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An analogue of the Milnor-Švarc lemma for Busemann boundaries
The Milnor-Švarc lemma, is, without doubt, regarded as one of the most important statements in geometric group theory. (Edit) One of the corollaries of this lemma says that if a hyperbolic group $G$ ...
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Historical perspectives on CAT(0) spaces
Does there exist a survey on the early developments of CAT(k) spaces, with the first motivations and the first problems considered? I looked at Bridson and Haefliger's book On metric spaces of non-...
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Convex subcomplexes of CAT(0) cubical complexes
Is the following statement true? If so, can anyone provide a reference?
Let $X$ be a CAT(0) cubical complex, and let $Y$ be a connected
subcomplex of $X$. Then the following are equivalent:
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CAT(0) groups that does not act on CAT(0) cubical complex
CAT(0) groups are groups that act on a CAT(0) space properly and cocompactly. If a group acts on a CAT(0) cubical complex properly and cocompactly, then of course it is a CAT(0) Group. I am wondering ...
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Mapping class group and CAT(0) spaces
I hope the questions are not too vague.
Is the mapping class group of an orientable punctured surface $CAT(0)$ ?
Is any of the remarkable simplicial complexes (curve complex, arc complex...) built ...
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Flat sector in a proper cocompact CAT(0) space
Let $X$ be a complete CAT(0) space with a proper and cocompact group action by isometries, and suppose there are $\xi, \xi' \in \partial X$ with $\angle (\xi, \xi') < \pi$. Using proposition 9.5 (3)...
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Examples of CAT(0)-groups
My question is the following:
Let M be a simply connected Riemannian manifold whose sectional curvatures
are all nonpositive and let G be a group. Suppose that G acts in M properly discontinuous and
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When is a extension of $\mathbb{Z}$ by a free group a CAT(0) group?
The question has an easy answer, if one replaces free by free abelian: Then the resulting group is always solvable and a solvable subgroup of a CAT(0) group is virtually abelian.
If the resulting was ...
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Braid groups acting on CAT(0)-complexes
Does the braid group $B_n, n\ge 3$, act properly by isometries on a CAT(0) cube complex?
Update 1. During a recent talk of Nigel Higson in Pennstate Dmitri Burago asked whether the braid groups are ...
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