Fundamental pro-groups and Gromov boundaries of simplicially negatively curved groups

Time

Nov 18 2008 - 2:30pm - 3:30 pm

Location

MA 240

Speaker

Jacerk Świątkowski (Wrocław)

Seminar Website

http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~sgal/ggt/

Abstract

I will describe certain exotic property of Gromov boundaries, called pro-π1-saturation, which holds for a class of word hyperbolic groups called 7-systolic. The class is related to the idea of simplicial negative curvature introduced by T. Januszkiewicz and myself. The property says that every closed subset in the boundary is π1-injective in this boundary, in certain shape-theoretic sense. This excludes 2-disc from being a subset of the boundary. 7-systolic groups are the only known ones with boundary of (topological) dimension above 2 and pro-π1-saturated. Nevertheless, I suspect this property to be generic (in some not yet discovered sense) among high-dimensional Gromov boundaries of groups.

Last updated by sgal on 11/13/08