Nonpositive sectional curvature for $(p,q,r)$-complexes
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Abstract:
We give a criterion for the nonpositive sectional curvature of $(p,q,r)$-complexes. As a consequence, we show that certain $2$-complexes have locally indicable, coherent and even locally quasiconvex fundamental groups.References
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Additional Information
- Daniel T. Wise
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- MR Author ID: 604784
- ORCID: 0000-0003-0128-1353
- Email: wise@math.mcgill.ca
- Received by editor(s): December 17, 2003
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 8, 2006
- Published electronically: September 26, 2007
- Additional Notes: The author’s research was supported by grants from NSERC and FCAR
- Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
- © Copyright 2007
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 41-48
- MSC (2000): Primary 20F67
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-07-08921-6
- MathSciNet review: 2350386