Asphericity of cubical presentations: the 2-dimensional case

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNAD204MaRDI QIDQ6436150zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Macarena Arenas

Publication date 10 May 2023

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/IMRN/RNAD204

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

Abstract: We show that under suitable hypotheses, the second homotopy group of the coned-off space associated to a $C(9)$ cubical presentation is trivial, and use this to provide classifying spaces for proper actions for the fundamental groups of many quotients of square complexes admitting such cubical presentations. When the cubical presentations satisfy a condition analogous to requiring that the relators in a group presentation are not proper powers, we conclude that the corresponding coned-off space is aspherical.

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