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Folding median graphs

Group Theory 2023-11-30 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Extending Stallings' foldings of trees, we show in this article that every parallel-preserving map between median graphs factors as an isometric embedding through a sequence of elementary transformations which we call foldings and swellings. This new construction proposes a unified point of view on Beeker and Lazarovich's work on folding pocsets and on Ben-Zvi, Kropholler, and Lyman's work on folding nonpositively curved cube complexes.

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@article{arxiv.2311.09751,
  title  = {Folding median graphs},
  author = {Anthony Genevois and Yassine Guerch and Romain Tessera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.09751},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

45 pages, 5 figures. Comments are welcome!

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