A model for the universal space for proper actions of a hyperbolic group

zbMATH Open0990.20027arXivmath/0209163MaRDI QIDQ5951883FDOQ5951883

Authors: David Meintrup, Thomas Schick 

Publication date: 8 January 2002

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a word hyperbolic group in the sense of Gromov and $P$ its associated Rips complex. We prove that the fixed point set $P^H$ is contractible for every finite subgroups $H$ of $G$. This is the main ingredient for proving that $P$ is a finite model for the universal space $e.g.$ of proper actions. As a corollary we get that a hyperbolic group has only finitely many conjugacy classes of finite subgroups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0209163

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zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classesword hyperbolic groupsfinite subgroupsclassifying spaces for proper actionsRips complexesuniversal spaces for proper actions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)

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