OpenAI reports a hyperbolic group without a geometric CAT(0) action

There is a finite connected aspherical complex with a linear combinatorial disk-filling bound whose word-hyperbolic fundamental group has no proper cocompact isometric action on any nonempty proper complete CAT(0) space.

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There is a finite connected aspherical complex with a linear combinatorial disk-filling bound whose word-hyperbolic fundamental group has no proper cocompact isometric action on any nonempty proper complete CAT(0) space.

Why it matters

If correct, gives a dimension-independent obstruction to geometric CAT(0) realization of a hyperbolic group.

What counts as progress

Must every word-hyperbolic group admit a geometric action on a proper CAT(0) space?

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