Proper affine actions for right-angled Coxeter groups

DOI10.1215/00127094-2019-0084MaRDI QIDQ6300130arXivFDO

Authors Jeffrey Danciger, François Guéritaud, Fanny Kassel

Publication date 9 April 2018

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1215/00127094-2019-0084

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

arXiv classification

math.GRmath.GT

Abstract: For any right-angled Coxeter group $Gamma$ on $k$ generators, we construct proper actions of $Gamma$ on $mathrmO(p,q+1)$ by right and left multiplication, and on the Lie algebra $mathfrako(p,q+1)$ by affine transformations, for some $p,qinmathbbN$ with $p+q+1=k$. As a consequence, any virtually special group admits proper affine actions on some $mathbb{R}^n$: this includes e.g. surface groups, hyperbolic 3-manifold groups, examples of word hyperbolic groups of arbitrarily large virtual cohomological dimension, etc. We also study some examples in cohomological dimension two and four, for which the dimension of the affine space may be substantially reduced.

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