On the dimension of CAT(0) spaces where mapping class groups act

Martin R. Bridson

Version of 3 August 2009 edited 12 Jan 2011. To appear in Crelle's journal

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Whenever the mapping class group of a closed orientable surface of genus g acts by semisimple isometries on a complete CAT(0) space of dimension less than g it must fix a point.