Nonhyperbolic Coxeter groups with Menger boundary

DOI10.4171/LEM/65-1/2-6MaRDI QIDQ2190078zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthew Haulmark, G. Christopher Hruska, Bakul Sathaye

Publication date 18 June 2020

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04649

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupMenger curvenonpositive curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: A generic finite presentation defines a word hyperbolic group whose boundary is homeomorphic to the Menger curve. In this article, we produce the first known examples of non-hyperbolic $CAT(0)$ groups whose visual boundary is homeomorphic to the Menger curve. The examples in question are the Coxeter groups whose nerve is a complete graph on $n$ vertices for $ngeq5$. The construction depends on a slight extension of Sierpi'nski's theorem on embedding $1$--dimensional planar compacta into the Sierpi'nski carpet. See the appendix for a brief erratum.

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Summary: A generic finite presentation defines a word hyperbolic group whose boundary is homeomorphic to the Menger curve. In this article we produce the first known examples of non-hyperbolic CAT(0) groups whose visual boundary is homeomorphic to the Menger curve. The examples in question are the Coxeter groups whose nerve is a complete graph on \(n\) vertices for \(n \geq 5\). The construction depends on a slight extension of Sierpinski's theorem on embedding 1-dimensional planar compacta into the Sierpinski carpet. We give a simplified proof of this theorem using the Baire category theorem.

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