## Duke Mathematical Journal

### Group cubization

Damian Osajda

#### Abstract

We present a procedure of group cubization: it results in a group whose features resemble some of those of a given group and which acts without fixed points on a $\operatorname{CAT}(0)$ cubical complex. As a main application, we establish the lack of Kazhdan’s property (T)for Burnside groups.

#### Article information

Source
Duke Math. J., Volume 167, Number 6 (2018), 1049-1055.

Dates
Revised: 30 October 2017
First available in Project Euclid: 8 March 2018

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1520499610

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1215/00127094-2017-0051

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3786300

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
06870400

#### Citation

Osajda, Damian. Group cubization. Duke Math. J. 167 (2018), no. 6, 1049--1055. doi:10.1215/00127094-2017-0051. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1520499610

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