Local-to-global fixed point properties for graphical C(4)-T(4) and C(6) small cancellation complexes

Abstract

Graphical small cancellation extends the classical small cancellation theory and provides a powerful method for constructing groups with prescribed subgraphs in their Cayley graphs. We prove that torsion subgroups of groups defined by possibly infinite C(4)-T(4) graphical small cancellation presentations are finite. We also prove the corresponding result for groups defined by C(6) graphical small cancellation presentations under the additional assumption that the presentation is torsion-essentially C(6)-free. Both results follow from a more general result on local-to-global fixed point properties for torsion groups acting by automorphisms on simply connected graphical small cancellation complexes.