Triangles, squares and geodesics.

DOI10.1142/S0218196712500415zbMATH Open1256.20042arXiv0910.5688MaRDI QIDQ2909487FDOQ2909487

Rena Levitt, Jon McCammond

Publication date: 30 August 2012

Published in: International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the early 1990s Steve Gersten and Hamish Short proved that compact nonpositively curved triangle complexes have biautomatic fundamental groups and that compact nonpositively curved square complexes have biautomatic fundamental groups. In this article we report on the extent to which results such as these extend to nonpositively curved complexes built out a mixture of triangles and squares. Since both results by Gersten and Short have been generalized to higher dimensions, this can be viewed as a first step towards unifying Januszkiewicz and {'S}wi{.a}tkowski's theory of simplicial nonpositive curvature with the theory of nonpositively curved cube complexes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5688

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zbMATH Keywords

decidabilitynonpositive curvatureCAT(0) groupsbiautomatic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

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• FANS AND LADDERS IN SMALL CANCELLATION THEORY
• Automatic structures, rational growth, and geometrically finite hyperbolic groups
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• Regular path systems and (bi)automatic groups.
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• Small cancellation theory and automatic groups

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