Isometries of systolic spaces
Volume 204 / 2009
Fundamenta Mathematicae 204 (2009), 39-55
MSC: 20F65, 20F67.
DOI: 10.4064/fm204-1-3
Abstract
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.
