From cut sets to cube complexes

Abstract

In this paper, we obtain an action on a cube complex from an action on a path-connected topological space with a system of divisions. In the settings of hyperbolic groups or relatively hyperbolic groups with no peripheral splittings, our result provides an alternate route to Sageev's construction of a cube complex action from a collection of (relatively) quasiconvex subgroups of a (relatively) hyperbolic group.