The Automorphism Group of a Free Group Is Not a Cat(0) Group

DOI10.2307/2161207zbMath0807.20034OpenAlexW4242424329MaRDI QIDQ4303799

Steve M. Gersten

Publication date: 7 March 1995

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2161207

zbMATH Keywords

isometriesfinitely generated free groups1-connected geodesic metric spacesGromov's condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Free nonabelian groups (20E05)

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