A class of automorphism groups of polygonal complexes

DOI10.1093/QJMATH/52.2.231MaRDI QIDQ2730929zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jacek Świątkowski

Publication date 19 April 2002

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmath/52.2.231

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupsnon-positive curvaturepolygonal complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

Review text

The author constructs groups acting on certain 2-dimensional polyhedral cell-complexes which he calls polygonal complexes, and he gives a complete description of the class of groups which act by automorphisms simply transitively on the oriented edges of non-positively curved polygonal complexes. Here, the non-positivity of the curvature is a property which non-trivial circuits at each link must satisfy (as in Gromov's theory). Such an action is a higher-dimensional analogue of the action of groups on their Cayley graphs. The construction here is based on the notion of a positively curved orbihedron and its fundamental group, and it generalizes ideas contained in a previous paper of \textit{W. Ballmann} and the author [Geom. Funct. Anal. 7, No. 4, 615-645 (1997; Zbl 0897.22007)]. The class of groups contains rotation groups of regular tesselations, some special 2-dimensional Coxeter groups and some finite extensions of Coxeter groups. The author relates the construction he presents here to Kazhdan's property (T).

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