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

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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 PH 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.




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