Virtually unipotent curves in some non-NPC graph manifolds

DOI10.1142/S0218196723500455MaRDI QIDQ6171902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sami Douba

Publication date 16 August 2023

Published in International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06797

zbMATH Keywords

geometric group theorygeometric topologylow-dimensional topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

Abstract: Let $M$ be a graph manifold containing a single JSJ torus $T$ and whose JSJ blocks are of the form $Sigmaimes{S}^1$, where $Sigma$ is a compact orientable surface with boundary. We show that if $M$ does not admit a Riemannian metric of everywhere nonpositive sectional curvature, then there is an essential curve on $T$ such that any finite-dimensional linear representation of $p{i}_1(M)$ maps an element representing that curve to a matrix all of whose eigenvalues are roots of $1$. In particular, this shows that $p{i}_1(M)$ does not admit a faithful finite-dimensional unitary representation, and gives a new proof that $p{i}_1(M)$ is not linear over any field of positive characteristic.

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