Virtual cubulation of nonpositively curved graph manifolds

Abstract

In this paper, we show that a nontrivial compact graph manifold is nonpositively curved if and only if its fundamental group virtually embeds into a right-angled Artin group. As a consequence, nonpositively curved graph manifolds have linear fundamental groups.

31 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication by the Journal of Topology

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