A construction of hyperbolic Coxeter groups. (Q1955663)

The author gives a geometric construction of Gromov hyperbolic Coxeter groups of large virtual cohomological dimension. The main result that the author obtains is the following theorem: Let \(X\) be a finite 5-large simplicial complex such that \(H^n(X;\mathbb Q)\neq 0\); and let \((W,S)\) be the Coxeter system whose nerve is \(X\). Then there exists a torsion-free finite index subgroup \(H\) of \(W\) such that the complex \(X'\), obtained by a certain construction given in the present paper, is a finite 5-large simplicial complex with \(H^{n+1}(X';\mathbb Q)\neq 0\). Thus the right-angled Coxeter group with the nerve \(X'\) is Gromov hyperbolic of virtual cohomological dimension at least \(n+2\).