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SUMMARY:Asymptotically CAT(0) metrics and applications - Alessandro Sisto\
 , Heriot Watt
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CONTACT:Macarena Arenas
DESCRIPTION:The talk is based on work in progress with Matt Durham and Yai
 r Minsky where we construct metrics that satisfy a CAT(0)-like inequality 
 involving a sublinear error for a large class of groups including mapping 
 class groups and a lot of their quotients\, most 3-manifold groups\, extra
 -large Artin groups\, extension of Veech groups and multicurve stabilisers
 \, and many others. \nThese metrics in turn allow one to construct contrac
 tible Rips complexes with "nice" compactifications\, and to use those to s
 how that the groups in our large class satisfy the Farrell-Jones conjectur
 e.
LOCATION:MR13
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