Flat Closing Conjecture for proper CAT(0) spaces

Let XX be a proper CAT(0) space with a proper cocompact action of a discrete group Γ\Gamma. A flat FXF\subset X is Γ\Gamma-periodic if some subgroup Γ0Γ\Gamma_0\leq\Gamma preserves FF and Γ0\X\Gamma_0\backslash X is compact. Assume that XX contains a flat of dimension nn. Flat Closing Conjecture. Does XX contain a Γ\Gamma-periodic flat of dimension nn? The conjecture asks for a converse to the flat torus theorem, which constructs flats from free Abelian subgroups of Isom(X)\operatorname{Isom}(X). The source presents it as an open question and notes that, for discrete Γ\Gamma, a periodic flat has a virtually free Abelian stabilizer of the corresponding rank.

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Bruno Duchesne, “Groups acting on spaces of non-positive curvature”, arXiv:1603.04573 (2016).

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