Two-dimensional Artin groups with CAT(0) dimension three.

DOI10.1023/A:1020962804856MaRDI QIDQ1855285zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Noel Brady, John Crisp

Publication date 4 February 2003

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0012102

zbMATH Keywords

Artin groupscohomological dimensiondiscrete groupsgroup actionslength functionsnon-positive curvaturetopological dimensiontwo-dimensional complexes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: We exhibit 3-generator Artin groups which have finite 2-dimensional Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces, but which do not act properly discontinuously by semi-simple isometries on a 2-dimensional CAT(0) complex. We prove that infinitely many of these groups are the fundamental groups of compact, non-positively curved 3-complexes. These examples show that the geometric dimension of a CAT(0) group may be strictly less than its CAT(0) dimension.

Review text

\textit{M. R. Bridson} showed [in Math. Res. Lett. 8, No. 4, 557-567 (2001; Zbl 0990.20026)] that there exist groups with geometric dimension 2, but CAT(0) dimension 3. In the paper under review more examples of this nature are given by exhibiting 3-generator Artin groups which have finite two-dimensional Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces, but which do not act properly discontinuously by semi-simple isometries on a two-dimensional CAT(0) complex. To prove that all but finitely many of the 3-generator Artin groups are the fundamental groups of compact nonpositively curved three-dimensional piecewise Euclidean complexes, first dihedral type Artin groups are introduced. For these, compact, non-positively curved 3-complexes are introduced, which are used as building blocks for the complexes necessary to obtain the results. Several related open questions are formulated in the end.

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