Event
Piotr Przytycki (9I制作厂免费)
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 15:00to16:00
Burnside Hall
Room 920, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA
Title: Torsion groups do not act on 2-dimensional CAT(0) complexes.
Abstract: We show, under mild hypotheses, that if each element of a finitely generated group acting on a 2-dimensional CAT(0) complex has a fixed point, then the action is trivial. In particular, all actions of finitely generated torsion groups on such complexes are trivial. As an ingredient, we prove that the image of an immersed loop in a graph of girth 2蟺 with length not commensurable to 蟺 has diameter >蟺. This is related to a theorem of Dehn on tiling rectangles by squares. Joint work with Sergey Norin and Damian Osajda.