Isometries of systolic spaces

Tomasz Elsner

Fundamenta Mathematicae (2009)

  • Volume: 204, Issue: 1, page 39-55
  • ISSN: 0016-2736

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We provide a classification of isometries of systolic complexes corresponding to the classification of isometries of CAT(0)-spaces. We prove that any isometry of a systolic complex either fixes the barycentre of some simplex (elliptic case) or stabilizes a thick geodesic (hyperbolic case). This leads to an alternative proof of the fact that finitely generated abelian subgroups of systolic groups are undistorted.

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Tomasz Elsner. "Isometries of systolic spaces." Fundamenta Mathematicae 204.1 (2009): 39-55. <http://eudml.org/doc/282729>.

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