Cocompact actions on hyperbolic buildings

DOI10.1142/S0218196710005807zbMATH Open1207.51009arXiv1409.1401MaRDI QIDQ3580225FDOQ3580225

Riikka Kangaslampi, Alina Vdovina

Publication date: 11 August 2010

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

Abstract: We study surface subgroups of groups acting simply transitively on vertex sets of certain hyperbolic triangular buildings. The study is motivated by Gromov's famous surface subgroup question: Does every one-ended hyperbolic group contain a subgroup which is isomorphic to the fundamental group of a closed surface of genus at least 2? Here we consider surface subgroups of the 23 torsion free groups acting simply transitively on the vertices of hyperbolic triangular buildings of the smallest non-trivial thickness. These groups gave the first examples of cocompact lattices acting simply transitively on vertices of hyperbolic triangular Kac-Moody buildings that are not right-angled. With the help of computer searches we show, that in most of the cases there are no periodic apartments invariant under the action of a genus two surface. The existence of such an action would imply the existence of a surface subgroup, but it is not known, whether the existence of a surface subgroup implies the existence of a periodic apartment. These groups are the first candidates for groups that have no surface subgroups arising from periodic apartments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1401

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zbMATH Keywords

generalized quadranglehyperbolic buildingpolygonal presentation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

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