{
  "id": "1804.03132",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2018-04-09T17:58:35.000Z",
  "updated": "2019-05-24T17:00:27.000Z",
  "title": "Proper affine actions for right-angled Coxeter groups",
  "authors": [
    "Jeffrey Danciger",
    "François Guéritaud",
    "Fanny Kassel"
  ],
  "comment": "41 pages, 4 figures",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT",
    "math.GR"
  ],
  "abstract": "For any right-angled Coxeter group $\\Gamma$ on $k$ generators, we construct proper actions of $\\Gamma$ on $\\mathrm{O}(p,q+1)$ by right and left multiplication, and on the Lie algebra $\\mathfrak{o}(p,q+1)$ by affine transformations, for some $p,q\\in\\mathbb N$ with $p+q+1=k$. As a consequence, any virtually special group admits proper affine actions on some $\\mathbb R^n$: this includes e.g. surface groups, hyperbolic 3-manifold groups, examples of word hyperbolic groups of arbitrarily large virtual cohomological dimension, etc. We also study some examples in cohomological dimension two and four, for which the dimension of the affine space may be substantially reduced.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2019-05-24T17:00:27.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "right-angled coxeter group",
      "large virtual cohomological dimension",
      "group admits proper affine actions",
      "special group admits proper affine"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 41,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}