LIMIT GROUPS ARE CAT(0)

DOI10.1112/S0024610706023155zbMATH Open1171.57001arXivmath/0410198OpenAlexW2152615135MaRDI QIDQ5489191FDOQ5489191

Authors: Emina Alibegović, Mladen Bestvina 

Publication date: 25 September 2006

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that every limit group acts geometrically on a CAT(0) space with the isolated flats property.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0410198

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zbMATH Keywords

CAT(0) spacelimit grouptowersisolated flatsScott core of a 3-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

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