The collapsibility of CAT(0) square 2-complexes

2020/06/26 by Lazăr, Ioana-Claudia
#05C75 #05C99 #FOS: Mathematics #Group Theory (math.GR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2006.16754

Abstract

We give a sufficient condition for the collapsibility of finite square 2-complexes. We show that any finite, CAT(0) square 2-complex retracts to a point through CAT(0) subspaces.

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