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A Cubical Flat Torus Theorem and the Bounded Packing Property

Group Theory 2017-03-14 v3

Abstract

We prove the bounded packing property for any abelian subgroup of a group acting properly and cocompactly on a CAT(0) cube complex. A main ingredient of the proof is a cubical flat torus theorem. This ingredient is also used to show that central HNN extensions of maximal free-abelian subgroups of compact special groups are virtually special, and to produce various examples of groups that are not cocompactly cubulated.

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@article{arxiv.1510.00365,
  title  = {A Cubical Flat Torus Theorem and the Bounded Packing Property},
  author = {Daniel T. Wise and Daniel J. Woodhouse},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.00365},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

14 pages, 2 figures, submitted May 2015 Minor corrections and swapped sections 2 and 3 Corrected an unfortunate typo in Theorem 2.1 - the hypothesis that the cube complex be finite dimensional has now been added

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