Square complexes and simplicial nonpositive curvature.

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2013-11568-6zbMATH Open1286.20050arXiv1107.4182MaRDI QIDQ2845448FDOQ2845448

Authors: Tomasz Elsner, Piotr Przytycki 

Publication date: 30 August 2013

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that each nonpositively curved square VH-complex can be turned functorially into a locally 6-large simplicial complex of the same homotopy type. It follows that any group acting geometrically on a CAT(0) square VH-complex is systolic. In particular the product of two finitely generated free groups is systolic, which answers a question of Daniel Wise. On the other hand, we exhibit an example of a compact non-VH nonpositively curved square complex, whose fundamental group is neither systolic, nor even virtually systolic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4182

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zbMATH Keywords

simplicial complexessystolic groupsfundamental groupsCAT(0) square complexesnonpositively curved square complexes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) Geometric group theory (20F65) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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