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Fixed point property for a CAT(0) space which admits a proper cocompact group action

Metric Geometry 2015-10-06 v4

Abstract

We prove that if a geodesically complete CAT(0)\mathrm{CAT}(0) space XX admits a proper cocompact isometric action of a group, then the Izeki-Nayatani invariant of XX is less than 11. Let GG be a finite connected graph, μ1(G)\mu_1 (G) be the linear spectral gap of GG, and λ1(G,X)\lambda_1 (G,X) be the nonlinear spectral gap of GG with respect to such a CAT(0)\mathrm{CAT}(0) space XX. Then, the result implies that the ratio λ1(G,X)/μ1(G)\lambda_1 (G,X) / \mu_1 (G) is bounded from below by a positive constant which is independent of the graph GG. It follows that any isometric action of a random group of the graph model on such XX has a global fixed point. In particular, any isometric action of a random group of the graph model on a Bruhat-Tits building associated to a semi-simple algebraic group has a global fixed point.

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@article{arxiv.1102.0729,
  title  = {Fixed point property for a CAT(0) space which admits a proper cocompact group action},
  author = {Tetsu Toyoda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.0729},
  year   = {2015}
}
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