Daniel T. Wise 2026-11-05
Daniel T. Wise studies geometric group theory through cubical geometry. With Frédéric Haglund, he introduced and studied special cube complexes, whose hyperplanes satisfy restrictions preventing certain self-interactions.[ref]
A compact nonpositively curved cube complex satisfying their criterion admits a local isometry into the standard complex of a Right-angled Artin group. Consequently its fundamental group embeds in a linear group. The contribution connects visible geometric conditions on hyperplanes with algebraic properties of the fundamental group.[ref]
Frédéric Haglund 2026-11-05
The key conditions control how hyperplanes embed, whether they are two-sided and how they meet. A local isometry to a standard cubical model then yields an embedding of the fundamental group. This is a concrete mechanism for obtaining algebraic information from the internal geometry of a complex.[ref]