CAT(0) spaces with polynomial divergence of geodesics

Abstract

We construct a family of finite 2-complexes whose universal covers are CAT(0) and have polynomial divergence of desired degree. This answers a question of Gersten, namely whether such CAT(0) complexes exist.

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