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Ramification conjecture and Hirzebruch's property of line arrangements
The ramification of a polyhedral space is defined as the metric completion of
the universal cover of its regular locus.
We consider mainly polyhedral spaces of two origins: quotients of Euclidean
space by a discrete group of isometries and polyhedral metrics on the complex
projective plane with singularities at a collection of complex lines.
In the former case we conjecture that quotient spaces always have a CAT[0]
ramification and prove this in several cases. In the latter case we prove that
the ramification is CAT[0] if the metric is non-negatively curved. We deduce
that complex line arrangements in the complex projective plane studied by
Hirzebruch have aspherical complement.Comment: 19 pages 1 figur