## Algebraic & Geometric Topology

### Ideal boundary of $7$–systolic complexes and groups

Damian Osajda

#### Abstract

We prove that ideal boundary of a 7–systolic group is strongly hereditarily aspherical. For some class of 7–systolic groups we show their boundaries are connected and without local cut points, thus getting some results concerning splittings of those groups.

#### Article information

Source
Algebr. Geom. Topol., Volume 8, Number 1 (2008), 81-99.

Dates
Accepted: 23 August 2007
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.agt/1513796808

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2140/agt.2008.8.81

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2377278

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1147.20037

Subjects
Secondary: 20F69: Asymptotic properties of groups

#### Citation

Osajda, Damian. Ideal boundary of $7$–systolic complexes and groups. Algebr. Geom. Topol. 8 (2008), no. 1, 81--99. doi:10.2140/agt.2008.8.81. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.agt/1513796808

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