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A condition that prevents groups from acting fixed point free on cube complexes

Group Theory 2018-05-14 v3 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We describe a group theoretic condition which ensures that any cellular action of a group satisfying this condition on a CAT(0) cube complex has a global fixed point. In particular, we show that this fixed point criterion is satisfied by the automorphism group of a free group of rank n. For the unique subgroup of index two in the automorphism group of a free group, we obtain a similar result.

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@article{arxiv.1508.06430,
  title  = {A condition that prevents groups from acting fixed point free on cube complexes},
  author = {Olga Varghese},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.06430},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, short version

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