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Subgroups of CAT(0) groups, exotic finiteness properties and non-QI-embeddings into linear groups

Group Theory 2024-12-19 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

For every positive integer nn we construct an example of a subgroup L<GL< G of a linear CAT(0){\rm CAT}(0) group GG such that LL is of finiteness type Fn1\mathcal{F}_{n-1} and not Fn\mathcal{F}_n, and LL does not admit a representation into GLd(k)\mathsf{GL}_d(k) which is a quasi-isometric embedding for any local field kk. We further prove that there is a faithful representation of LL into some GL(C)\mathsf{GL}_{\ell}(\mathbb{C}) which is not the restriction of any representation of GG. This generalises a family of fibre products of type F2\mathcal{F}_2 not F3\mathcal{F}_3 with these properties constructed by the second author.

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@article{arxiv.2412.14081,
  title  = {Subgroups of CAT(0) groups, exotic finiteness properties and non-QI-embeddings into linear groups},
  author = {Claudio Llosa Isenrich and Konstantinos Tsouvalas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14081},
  year   = {2024}
}

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