On Geometric Flats in the CAT(0) Realization of Coxeter Groups and Tits Buildings

DOI10.4153/CJM-2009-040-8MaRDI QIDQ5322975zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Frédéric Haglund

Publication date 23 July 2009

Published in Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607741

zbMATH Keywords

buildingsCAT(0) spacesCoxeter groupsfree Abelian subgroupsGromov-hyperbolic groupsgeometric actionsconvex cocompact subgroupsflat rank

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15)

Abstract: Given a complete CAT(0) space $X$ endowed with a geometric action of a group $Gamma$, it is known that if $Gamma$ contains a free abelian group of rank $n$, then $X$ contains a geometric flat of dimension $n$. We prove a converse of this statement in the special case where $X$ is a convex subcomplex of the CAT(0) realization of a Coxeter group $W$, and $Gamma$ is a subgroup of $W$. In particular a convex cocompact subgroup of a Coxeter group is Gromov-hyperbolic if and only if it does not contain a free abelian group of rank 2. Our result also provides an explicit control on geometric flats in the CAT(0) realization of arbitrary Tits buildings.

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