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On the Girth of Groups acting on CAT(0) cube complexes

Group Theory 2024-08-20 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We obtain a sufficient condition for lattices in the automorphism group of a finite dimensional CAT(0) cube complex to have infinite girth. As a corollary, we get a version of Girth Alternative for groups acting geometrically: any such group is either {locally finite}-by-{virtually abelian} or it has infinite girth. We produce counterexamples to show that the alternative fails in the general class of groups acting cocompactly on finite dimensional CAT(0) cube complexes by obtaining examples of non virtually solvable groups which satisfy a law.

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@article{arxiv.2408.09091,
  title  = {On the Girth of Groups acting on CAT(0) cube complexes},
  author = {Arka Banerjee and Daniel Gulbrandsen and Pratyush Mishra and Prayagdeep Parija},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.09091},
  year   = {2024}
}

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