Seminar series
Date
Mon, 23 May 2011
Time
15:45 - 16:45
Location
L3
Speaker
Remi Coulon
Organisation
MPI Bonn

The goal of this talk is to construct new examples of hyperbolic

aspherical complexes. More precisely, given an aspherical simplicial

complex P and a subcomplex Q of P, we are looking for conditions under

which the complex obtained by attaching a cone of base Q on P remains

aspherical. If Q is a set of loops of a 2-dimensional complex, J.H.C.

Whitehead proved that this new complex is aspherical if and only if the

elements of the fundamental group of P represented by Q do not satisfy

any identity. To deal with higher dimensional subcomplexes we use small

cancellation theory and extend the geometric point of view developed by

T. Delzant and M. Gromov to rotation families of groups. In particular

we obtain hyperbolic aspherical complexes obtained by attaching a cone

over the "real part" of a hyperbolic complex manifold.

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