Virtual Cubulation of Nonpositively Curved Graph Manifolds
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In this paper, we show that an aspherical compact graph manifold is nonpositively curved if and only if its fundamental group virtually embeds into a right-angled Artin group. As a consequence, nonpositively curved graph manifolds have linear fundamental groups.
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