Manchester Geometry Seminar 2005/2006


2 March 2006. Room G.15, Newman Building. 4pm

Construction of Some Torsion Free Hyperbolic Groups with Property (T)

Alina Vdovina (University of Newcastle)


Alina.Vdovina@newcastle.ac.uk

We are going to explain an elementary construction of triangular hyperbolic polyhedra whose links are generalized 4-dons. The universal cover of such a polyhedron is a hyperbolic building, whose apartments are hyperbolic planes tesselated by regular triangles with angles π/4. The fundamental groups of the polyhedra are hyperbolic, torsion free, with property (T).


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