Constructions of E_VC and E_FBC for groups acting on CAT(0) spaces.

DOI10.2140/AGT.2010.10.2229MaRDI QIDQ600815zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Farley

Publication date 2 November 2010

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.1355

zbMATH Keywords

actions by semisimple isometriesCAT(0) spacesclassifying spacesfinite-by-cyclic groupsvirtually cyclic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: If G is a group acting properly by semisimple isometries on a proper CAT(0) space X, then we build models for the classifying spaces E_{vc} and E_{fbc} under the additional assumption that the action of G has a well-behaved collection of axes in X. (This hypothesis is described in the paper.) We conjecture that the latter hypothesis is satisfied in a large range of cases. Our classifying spaces resemble those created by Connolly, Fehrman, and Hartglass for crystallographic groups G.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a group and \(\mathcal{VC}\), \(\mathcal{FBC}\) be the families of virtually cyclic and of finite-by-cyclic subgroups of \(G\), respectively. The author constructs universal spaces \(E_{\mathcal{VC}}G\) and \(E_{\mathcal{FBC}}G\) for these families in the case \(G\) acts on a CAT(0) space and other special properties which we explain. Let \(X\) be a CAT(0) proper space, an isometry of \(X\) is `semisimple' if it fixes a point or it acts on a line, this line is called an `axis'. Let \(\mathcal A(X;G)\) be the space of axes of \(X\) and \(\mathcal L(X)\) denote the space of lines of \(X\). A subset \(A\subset\mathcal A(X;G)\) is called `\(G\)-well behaved space of axes' if (1) \(\mathcal A\) is closed and component-wise convex as a subset of \(\mathcal L(X)\); (2) \(G\mathcal A=\mathcal A\); and (3) for any \(\ell\in\mathcal A(X;G)\), \(\mathcal A\) contains at least one axis parallel to \(\ell\). The main theorem is the following: Theorem. Let \(G\) be a group acting by semisimple isometries on a proper CAT(0) space \(X\), assume that there is a \(G\)-well behaved space of axes \(\mathcal A\). Then, there are Connolly-Fehrman-Hartglass type constructions of \(E_{\mathcal{VC}}G\) and \(E_{\mathcal{FBC}}G\) based on the action of \(G\) on \(X\).

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