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On the biautomaticity of CAT(0) triangle-square groups

Group Theory 2025-10-07 v3

Abstract

Following the research from the paper "Triangles, squares and geodesics" (arXiv:0910.5688) of Rena Levitt and Jon McCammond we investigate the properties of groups acting on CAT(0) triangle-square complexes, focusing mostly on biautomaticity of such groups. In particular we show two examples of nonpositively curved triangle-square complexes X1X_1 and X2X_2, such that their universal covers violate conjectures given in the aforementioned paper. This shows that the Gersten-Short geodesics cannot be used as a way of proving biautomaticity of groups acting on such complexes. Lastly we give a proof of biautomaticity of π1(X1)\pi_1(X_1), however the biautomaticity of π1(X2)\pi_1(X_2) remains unknown.

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@article{arxiv.2412.02892,
  title  = {On the biautomaticity of CAT(0) triangle-square groups},
  author = {Mateusz Kandybo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.02892},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

26 pages, 13 figures Version 3 with minor corrections