Rectangle groups

Abstract: A class of groups is investigated, each of which has a fairly simple presentation . For example the group

R = (a, b, c, d | a^{3} = b^{3} = c^{3} = d^{3} = 1, b a^{- 1} = d c^{- 1}, c a^{- 1} = d b^{- 1})

is in the class. Such a group does not have as a homomorphic image any group which is a 2-orbifold group or which is a group of isometries of the reals. However it does have incompatible splittings over subgroups which are not small. This contradicts some ideas I had about universal JSJ decompostions for finitely presented groups over finitely generated subgroups. Such a group also has an unstable action on an R-tree and a cocompact action on a CAT(0) cube complex with finite cyclic point stabilizers, and trivial edge stabilizers.

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