Hyperbolicity in non-metric cubical small-cancellation

Abstract

Given a non-positively curved cube complex $X$, we prove that the quotient of $\pi_1X$ defined by a cubical presentation $\langle X\mid Y_1,\dots, Y_s\rangle$ satisfying sufficient non-metric cubical small-cancellation conditions is hyperbolic provided that $\pi_1X$ is hyperbolic. This generalises the fact that finitely presented classical $C(7)$ small-cancellation groups are hyperbolic.