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An isoperimetric inequality for the Heisenberg groups (English)
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26 May 1998
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It is shown that the Heisenberg groups \(H^{2n+1}\) of dimension five and higher, considered as Riemannian manifolds, satisfy a quadratic isoperimetric inequality. (This means that each loop of length \(L\) bounds a disk of area \(\sim L^2\).) The proof consists of an explicit construction of the disk spanning each loop in \(H^{2n+1}\). This property implies several important results about isoperimetric inequalities for discrete groups that act either on \(H^{2n+1}\) or on the complex hyperbolic space and provides interesting examples in geometric group theory.
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Heisenberg groups
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Riemannian manifolds
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isoperimetric inequality
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geometric group theory
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