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CAT(0) Polygonal Complexes are 2-Median

Metric Geometry 2023-11-14 v3 Group Theory

Abstract

Median spaces are spaces in which for every three points the three intervals between them intersect at a single point. It is well known that rank-1 affine buildings are median spaces, but by a result of Haettel, higher rank buildings are not even coarse median. We define the notion of ``2-median space'', which roughly says that for every four points the minimal discs filling the four geodesic triangles they span intersect in a point or a geodesic segment. We show that CAT(0) Euclidean polygonal complexes, and in particular rank-2 affine buildings, are 2-median. In the appendix, we recover a special case of a result of Stadler of a Fary-Milnor type theorem and show in elementary tools that a minimal disc filling a geodesic triangle is injective.

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@article{arxiv.2212.00894,
  title  = {CAT(0) Polygonal Complexes are 2-Median},
  author = {Shaked Bader and Nir Lazarovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.00894},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

42 pages, 30 figures; final version - published in Geometriae Dedicata

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