A condition that prevents groups from acting fixed point free on cube complexes

DOI10.1007/S10711-018-0361-2zbMATH Open1416.51005arXiv1508.06430OpenAlexW2964136677WikidataQ129807468 ScholiaQ129807468MaRDI QIDQ2417652FDOQ2417652

Authors: Olga Varghese 

Publication date: 12 June 2019

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

Abstract: We describe a group theoretic condition which ensures that any cellular action of a group satisfying this condition on a CAT(0) cube complex has a global fixed point. In particular, we show that this fixed point criterion is satisfied by the automorphism group of a free group of rank n. For the unique subgroup of index two in the automorphism group of a free group, we obtain a similar result.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06430

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zbMATH Keywords

\(\Aut(F_n)\)\(\operatorname{CAT}(0)\) cube complexesglobal fixed point property

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Metric geometry (51F99)

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