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Let G be a group acting geometrically on a CAT(0) cube complex X. We prove first that G is hyperbolic relative to the collection P of subgroups if and only if the simplicial boundary of X is the disjoint union of a nonempty discrete set,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-15 Jason Behrstock , Mark F. Hagen

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 Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Arka Banerjee , Daniel Gulbrandsen , Pratyush Mishra , Prayagdeep Parija

We describe a higher dimensional analogue of the Stallings folding sequence for group actions on CAT(0) cube complexes. We use it to give a characterization of quasiconvex subgroups of hyperbolic groups which act properly co-compactly on…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-01 Benjamin Beeker , Nir Lazarovich

We examine a condition on a simply connected 2-complex X ensuring that groups acting properly on X are coherent. This extends earlier work on 2-complexes with negative sectional curvature which covers the case that G acts freely. Our…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Eduardo Martínez-Pedroza , Daniel T. Wise

We study the acylindrical hyperbolicity of groups acting by isometries on CAT(0) cube complexes, and obtain simple criteria formulated in terms of stabilisers for the action. Namely, we show that a group acting essentially and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Indira Chatterji , Alexandre Martin

We consider diagram groups as defined by V. Guba and M. Sapir. A diagram group G acts on the associated cube complex K by isometries. It is known that if a cube complex L is of a finite dimension then every isometry g of L is semi-simple,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Yael Algom-Kfir , Bronislaw Wajnryb , Pawel Witowicz

We construct a family of finite 2-complexes whose universal covers are CAT(0) and have polynomial divergence of desired degree. This answers a question of Gersten, namely whether such CAT(0) complexes exist.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Natasa Macura

We prove the Parallel Wall Theorem for CAT(0) 2-complexes constructed by regular polygons with an even number of sides. This result extends a combination of the works of Janzen and Wise and Hruska and Wise.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Carl Kristof-Tessier

We develop the foundations of the theory of relatively geometric actions of relatively hyperbolic groups on CAT(0) cube complexes, a notion introduced in our previous work [5]. In the relatively geometric setting we prove: full relatively…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Eduard Einstein , Daniel Groves

The notions of nonpositive curved spaces and biautomatic groups are generalizations of the geometric properties of hyperbolic spaces and computational properties of their fundamental groups. Given the mutual origins of these conditions, one…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-15 Rena M. H. Levitt

In this note, we discuss and motivate the use of the terminology ``median graphs'' in place of ``CAT(0) cube complexes'' in geometric group theory.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Anthony Genevois

We construct new families of quasimorphisms on many groups acting on CAT(0) cube complexes. These quasimorphisms have a uniformly bounded defect of 12, and they "see" all elements that act hyperbolically on the cube complex. We deduce that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Talia Fernós , Max Forester , Jing Tao

We describe a procedure called panel collapse for replacing a CAT(0) cube complex $\Psi$ by a "lower complexity" CAT(0) cube complex $\Psi_\bullet$ whenever $\Psi$ contains a codimension-$2$ hyperplane that is extremal in one of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Mark F. Hagen , Nicholas W. M. Touikan

Given a CAT(0) cube complex X, we show that if Aut(X) $\neq$ Isom(X) then there exists a full subcomplex of X which decomposes as a product with $\mathbb{R}^n$. As applications, we prove that if X is $\delta$-hyperbolic, cocompact and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Corey Bregman

Let $G$ be a group acting properly and essentially on an irreducible, non-Euclidean finite dimensional CAT(0) cube complex $X$ without fixed points at infinity. We show that for any finite collection of simultaneously inessential subgroups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Aditi Kar , Michah Sageev

We revisit the topic of probability measures on CAT(0) cube complexes and prove that an amenable group acting on a CAT(0) cube complex, regardless of dimension, necessarily preserves an interval in the Roller compactification. In the finite…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Talia Fernós

In this short note, we show that a group acting geometrically on a CAT(0) cube complex with virtually abelian hyperplane-stabilisers must decompose virtually as a free product of free abelian groups and surface groups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Anthony Genevois

We consider a finite-dimensional, locally finite CAT(0) cube complex X admitting a co-compact properly discontinuous countable group of automorphisms G. We construct a natural compact metric space B(X) on which G acts by homeomorphisms, the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-05-10 Amos Nevo , Michah Sageev

We give a new proof of the Baum--Connes conjecture with coefficients for any second countable, locally compact topological group that acts properly and cocompactly on a finite-dimensional CAT(0)-cubical space with bounded geometry. The…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2019-08-29 Jacek Brodzki , Erik Guentner , Nigel Higson , Shintaro Nishikawa

We show that if a 1-ended group $G$ acts geometrically on a CAT(0) space $X$ and $\bd X$ is separated by $m$ points then either $G$ is virtually a surface group or $G$ splits over a 2-ended group. In the course of the proof we study nesting…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Panos Papasoglu , Eric Swenson