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Surface subgroups for lattices in Fuchsian buildings

Group Theory 2014-09-04 v2

Abstract

We consider finite 2-dimensional polyhedral complexes, equipped with piecewise non-positively curved, locally CAT(0) metrics. We give conditions on the complex X that ensure that its fundamental group contains a surface subgroup. Concrete examples covered by our methods include compact quotients of sufficiently thick Fuchsian buildings, where the lattice acts freely and the quotient has at least two vertices.

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@article{arxiv.1407.3958,
  title  = {Surface subgroups for lattices in Fuchsian buildings},
  author = {David Constantine and Jean-Francois Lafont and Izhar Oppenheim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.3958},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the authors due to an error in the proof of Fact 3

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