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We extend previous results by Cumplido, Martin and Vaskou on parabolic subgroups of large-type Artin groups to a broader family of two-dimensional Artin groups. In particular, we prove that an arbitrary intersection of parabolic subgroups of a (2,2)-free twodimensional Artin group is itself a parabolic subgroup.An Artin group is (2,2)-free if its defining graph does not have two consecutive edges labeled by 2. As a consequence of this result, we solve the conjugacy stability problem for this family by applying an algorithm introduced by Cumplido. All of this is accomplished by considering systolic-by-function complexes, which generalize systolic complexes. Systolic-by-function complexes have a more flexible structure than systolic complexes since we allow the edges to have different lengths. At the same time, their geometry is rigid enough to satisfy an analogue of the Cartan-Hadamard theorem and other geometric properties similar to those of systolic complexes.

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We present a metric condition $\TTMetric$ which describes the geometry of classical small cancellation groups and applies also to other known classes of groups such as two-dimensional Artin groups. We prove that presentations satisfying condition $\TTMetric$ are diagrammatically reducible in the sense of Sieradski and Gersten. In particular, we deduce that the standard presentation of an Artin group is aspherical if and only if it is diagrammatically reducible. We show that, under some extra hypotheses, $\TTMetric$ -groups have quadratic Dehn functions and solvable conjugacy problem. In the spirit of Greendlinger's lemma, we prove that if a presentation P = 〈X| R〉 of group G satisfies conditions $\TTMetric -C'(\frac {1}{2})$ , the length of any nontrivial word in the free group generated by X representing the trivial element in G is at least that of the shortest relator. We also introduce a strict metric condition $\TTMetricStrict$ , which implies hyperbolicity.