Lifting group actions, equivariant towers and subgroups of non-positively curved groups.

DOI10.2140/AGT.2014.14.2783zbMATH Open1335.20045arXiv1307.2640OpenAlexW3102747033MaRDI QIDQ470701FDOQ470701

Authors: Richard Gaelan Hanlon, Eduardo Martínez-Pedroza 

Publication date: 13 November 2014

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: If $mathcalC$ is a class of complexes closed under taking full subcomplexes and covers and $mathcalG$ is the class of groups admitting proper and cocompact actions on one-connected complexes in $mathcalC$, then $mathcalG$ is closed under taking finitely presented subgroups. As a consequence the following classes of groups are closed under taking finitely presented subgroups: groups acting geometrically on regular $CAT(0)$ simplicial complexes of dimension $3$, $k$-systolic groups for $kgeq6$, and groups acting geometrically on $2$-dimensional negatively curved complexes. We also show that there is a finite non-positively curved cubical $3$-complex which is not homotopy equivalent to a finite non-positively curved regular simplicial $3$-complex. We included other applications to relatively hyperbolic groups and diagramatically reducible groups. The main result is obtained by developing a notion of equivariant towers which is of independent interest.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2640

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zbMATH Keywords

systolic groupsrelatively hyperbolic groupshyperbolic groupsvan Kampen diagramsCAT(0) complexesdiagrammatically reducible groupsequivariant coversequivariant towersfinitely presented subgroupsnon-positively curved groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)

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