Coherence and negative sectional curvature in complexes of groups

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1378757886zbMATH Open1309.57005arXiv1307.7929OpenAlexW2017913514MaRDI QIDQ376665FDOQ376665

Authors: Eduardo Martínez-Pedroza, Daniel T. Wise 

Publication date: 19 November 2013

Published in: Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We examine a condition on a simply connected 2-complex X ensuring that groups acting properly on X are coherent. This extends earlier work on 2-complexes with negative sectional curvature which covers the case that G acts freely. Our extension of these results involves a generalization of the notion of sectional curvature, an extension of the combinatorial Gauss-Bonnet theorem to complexes of groups, and surprisingly requires the use of L^2-Betti numbers. We also prove local quasiconvexity of G under the additional assumption that X is CAT(0) space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7929

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zbMATH Keywords

\(\ell^2\)-Betti numberscoherent groupcombinatorial Gauss-Bonnet formulacombinatorial sectional curvaturelocally quasiconvex subgroup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16)

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