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A cubulation with no factor system

Group Theory 2025-03-12 v2

Abstract

The primary method for showing that a given cubulated group is hierarchically hyperbolic is by constructing a factor system on the cube complex. In this paper we show that such a construction is not always possible, namely we construct a cubulated group for which the cube complex does not have a factor system. We also construct a cubulated group for which the induced action on the contact graph is not acylindrical.

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@article{arxiv.2208.10421,
  title  = {A cubulation with no factor system},
  author = {Sam Shepherd},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.10421},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures; v2: Remarks 2.4 and 3.3 added, to appear in Algebraic & Geometric Topology

R2 v1 2026-06-25T01:52:39.870Z