\(N\)-step energy of maps and the fixed-point property of random groups. (Q1932133)

Summary: We prove that a random group of the graph model associated with a sequence of expanders has the fixed-point property for a certain class of CAT(0) spaces. We use Gromov's criterion for the fixed-point property in terms of the growth of \(n\)-step energy of equivariant maps from a finitely generated group into a CAT(0) space, for which we give a detailed proof. We estimate a relevant geometric invariant of the tangent cones of the Euclidean buildings associated with the groups \(\text{PGL}(m,\mathbb Q_r)\), and deduce from the general result above that the same random group has the fixed-point property for all of these Euclidean buildings with \(m\) bounded from above.