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

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Authors David Meintrup, Thomas Schick

Publication date 8 January 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0209163, https://eudml.org/doc/121926, http://www.emis.de/journals/NYJM/j/2002/8-1nf.htm

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zbMATH Keywords

classifying spaces for proper actionsconjugacy classesfinite subgroupsRips complexesuniversal spaces for proper actionsword hyperbolic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) 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)

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.

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