On the CAT(0) dimension of 2-dimensional Bestvina-Brady groups
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چکیده
Let K be a 2-dimensional finite flag complex. We study the CAT(0) dimension of the ‘Bestvina-Brady group’, or ‘Artin kernel’, ΓK . We show that ΓK has CAT(0) dimension 3 unless K admits a piecewise Euclidean metric of non-positive curvature. We give an example to show that this implication cannot be reversed. Different choices of K lead to examples where the CAT(0) dimension is 3, and either (i) the geometric dimension is 2, or (ii) the cohomological dimension is 2 and the geometric dimension is not known. AMS Classification 20F67; 57M20
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