On the semisimplicity of polyhedral isometries

Authors
Citation
Mr. Bridson, On the semisimplicity of polyhedral isometries, P AM MATH S, 127(7), 1999, pp. 2143-2146
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics
Journal title
PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
ISSN journal
00029939 → ACNP
Volume
127
Issue
7
Year of publication
1999
Pages
2143 - 2146
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9939(199907)127:7<2143:OTSOPI>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
If a polyhedral complex K has only finitely many isometry types of cells, t hen all of its cellular isometries are semisimple. If K is 1-connected and non-positively curved, then any solvable group that acts freely by cellular isometries on K is finitely generated and contains an abelian subgroup of finite index.