Maximal torsion-free subgroups of certain lattices of hyperbolic buildings and Davis complexes

DOI10.1007/S10711-017-0258-5zbMATH Open1494.20039arXiv1607.01678OpenAlexW2963825119WikidataQ59520955 ScholiaQ59520955MaRDI QIDQ1742467FDOQ1742467

Xianqiang Yang

Publication date: 11 April 2018

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give an explicit construction of a maximal torsion-free finite-index subgroup of a certain type of Coxeter group. The subgroup is constructed as the fundamental group of a finite and non-positively curved polygonal complex. First we consider the special case where the universal cover of this polygonal complex is a hyperbolic building, and we construct finite-index embeddings of the fundamental group into certain cocompact lattices of the building. We show that in this special case the fundamental group is an amalgam of surface groups over free groups. We then consider the general case, and construct a finite-index embedding of the fundamental group into the Coxeter group whose Davis complex is the universal cover of the polygonal complex. All of the groups which we embed have minimal index among torsion-free subgroups, and therefore are maximal among torsion-free subgroups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01678

zbMATH Keywords

latticebuildingCoxeter groupcomplex of groupstorsion-freepolygonal complex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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