Biautomaticity conjecture for compact nonpositively curved triangle-square complexes

Let KK be a compact nonpositively curved triangle-square complex, meaning a complex built from triangles and squares with nonpositive curvature, and let π1(K)\pi_1(K) denote its fundamental group. Biautomaticity conjecture. The fundamental group π1(K)\pi_1(K) is biautomatic. This would extend the Gersten–Short theorem from complexes consisting solely of triangles or solely of squares to complexes mixing both types of cells; the paper presents it as the main conjecture, with the proposed geodesic construction and its required fellow-travelling and regular-language properties still to be established.

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Rena Levitt and Jon McCammond, “Triangles, squares and geodesics”, arXiv:0910.5688 (2009).

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