Some properties of non-positively curved lattices

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2008.07.006MaRDI QIDQ943640zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Nicolas Monod

Publication date 10 September 2008

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0156

zbMATH Keywords

CAT(0) groupsCAT(0) spaceslatticesmanifoldsnon-Euclidian buildingsnon-positive curvatureS-arithmetic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of modular groups and generalizations; arithmetic groups (11F06) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: We announce results on the structure of CAT(0) groups, CAT(0) lattices and of the underlying spaces. Our statements rely notably on a general study of the full isometry groups of proper CAT(0) spaces. Classical statements about Hadamard manifolds are established for singular spaces; new arithmeticity and rigidity statements are obtained.

Review text

This article is just a summary of results without any proofs given. The results are on the structure of CAT(0) groups, CAT(0) lattices and the underlying spaces. The authors define a CAT(0) group as a pair \((\Gamma ,X)\) where \(X\) is a proper CAT(0) space and \(\Gamma \) a properly discontinuous cocompact group of isometries of \(X\). A CAT(0) lattice is a pair \((\Gamma ,X)\) where \(X\) is a proper CAT(0) space whose isometry group \(\text{Is}(X)\) acts cocompactly and \(\Gamma \) is a lattice in \(\text{Is}(X)\). The authors announce some general results on CAT(0) lattices in several classical topics: closed manifolds of non-positive curvature; uniform lattices in semi-simple groups over local fields; tree lattices, exotic and non-Euclidian buildings; general geometric group theory. Classical statements about Hadamard manifolds are established for singular spaces; new arithmetic and rigidity statements are obtained.

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