On semistability of CAT(0) groups

DOI10.4171/GGD/501MaRDI QIDQ2319847zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Ross Geoghegan, Eric L. Swenson

Publication date 20 August 2019

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07061

zbMATH Keywords

boundaryCAT(0) spacegeodesic raysemistable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Review text

Summary: Does every one-ended CAT(0) group have semistable fundamental group at infinity? As we write, this is an open question. Let \(G\) be such a group acting geometrically on the proper CAT(0) space \(X\). In this paper we show that in order to establish a positive answer to the question it is only necessary to check that any two geodesic rays in \(X\) are properly homotopic. We then show that if the answer to the question is negative, with \((G, X)\) a counter-example, then the boundary of \(X, \partial X\) with the cone topology, must have a weak cut point. This is of interest because a theorem of Papasoglu and the second-named author [10] has established that there cannot be an example of \((G, X)\) where \(\partial X\) has a cut point. Thus, the search for a negative answer comes down to the difference between cut points and weak cut points. We also show that the Tits ball of radius \(\frac{\pi}{2}\) about that weak cut point is a ``cut set in the sense that it separates \(\partial X\). Finally, we observe that if a negative example \((G, X)\) exists then \(G\) is rank 1.

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