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Subdivision rules for special cubulated groups

Geometric Topology 2013-10-29 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We find explicit subdivision rules for all special cubulated groups. A subdivision rule for a group produces a sequence of tilings on a sphere which encode all quasi-isometric information for a group. We show how these tilings detect properties such as growth, ends, divergence, etc. We include figures of several worked out examples.

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@article{arxiv.1307.1788,
  title  = {Subdivision rules for special cubulated groups},
  author = {Brian Rushton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.1788},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

32 pages, 33 figures. Significantly expanded to include subdivision rules for all special cubulated groups. Includes several applications of subdivision rules related to quasi-isometries

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