Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, 216 Milner Hall, 13th of October 2004, 3:00-3:50

Groups and Dynamics Seminar


Some groups acting on CAT(0) cube complexes

Indira Chatterji of Cornell University

We will explain why a group acting properly cellularly and with uniformly bounded stabilisors on a CAT(0) cube complex of finite dimension cannot contain amenable subgroups of superpolynomial growth, and discuss some related problems.