Infinite systolic groups are not torsion

DOI10.4064/CM6982-6-2017MaRDI QIDQ4581978zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tomasz Prytuła

Publication date 21 August 2018

Published in Colloquium Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4421

zbMATH Keywords

simplicial nonpositive curvaturesystolic complexfilling diagram

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Group actions on combinatorial structures (05E18)

Abstract: We study $k$-systolic complexes introduced by T. Januszkiewicz and J. '{S}wik{a}tkowski, which are simply connected simplicial complexes of simplicial nonpositive curvature. Using techniques of filling diagrams we prove that for $kgeq7$ the $1$-skeleton of a $k$-systolic complex is Gromov hyperbolic. We give an elementary proof of the so-called Projection Lemma, which implies contractibility of $6$-systolic complexes. We also present a new proof of the fact that an infinite group acting geometrically on a $6$-systolic complex is not torsion.

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• Systolic geometry and simplicial complexity for groups
• Minimal disc diagrams of 5/9-simplicial complexes
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• Solvable subgroup theorem for simplicial nonpositive curvature
• Hyperbolic isometries and boundaries of systolic complexes
• Fundamental pro-groups and Gromov boundaries of 7-systolic groups.
• Filling invariants of systolic complexes and groups.
• Ideal boundary of 7-systolic complexes and groups.
• Systolic groups acting on complexes with no flats are word-hyperbolic
• Isometries of systolic spaces

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