New examples of finitely presented groups with strong fixed point properties

2008/09/22 by Chatterji, Indira, Kassabov, Martin
#FOS: Mathematics #Group Theory (math.GR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0809.3719

Abstract

The aim of this note is to give an easy example of a finitely presented group that cannot act without a fix point on a CAT(0) space of finite dimension. Such an example has been recently constructed by Arjantseva et al., using other techniques

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