Preface
Mladen Bestvina, Michah Sageev, Karen Vogtmann Introduction
Michah Sageev
CAT(0) Cube Complexes and Groups
Introduction
Lecture 1. CAT(0) cube complexes and pocsets
1. The basics of NPC and CAT(0) complexes
2. Hyperplanes
3. The pocset structure
Lecture 2. Cubulations: from pocsets to CAT(0) cube complexes
1. Ultrafilters
2. Constructing the complex from a pocset
3. Examples of cubulations
4. Cocompactness and properness
5. Roller duality
Lecture 3. Rank rigidity
1. Essential cores
2. Skewering
3. Single skewering
4. Flipping
5. Double skewering
6. Hyperplanes in sectors
7. Proving rank rigidity
Lecture 4. Special cube complexes
1. Subgroup separability
2. Warmup-Stallings' proof of Marshall Hall's theorem
3. Special cube complexes
4. Canonical completion and retraction
5. Application: separability of quasiconvex subgroups
6. Hyperbolic cube complexes are virtually special
Bibliography
Vincent Guirardel
Geometric Small Cancellation
Introduction
Lecture 1. What is small cancellation about?
1. The basic setting
2. Applications of small cancellation
3. Geometric small cancellation
Lecture 2. Applying the small cancellation theorem
1. When the theorem does not apply
2. Weak proper discontinuity
3. SQ-universality
4. Dehn fillings
Lecture 3. Rotating families
1. Road-map of the proof of the small caamcellation theorem
2. Definitions
3. Statements
4. Proof of Theorem 3.4
5. Hyperbolicity of the quotient
6. Exercises