Filling length in finitely presentable groups.

DOI10.1023/A:1019682203828MaRDI QIDQ698115zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Steve M. Gersten, Timothy Riley

Publication date 18 September 2002

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0008030

zbMATH Keywords

Dehn functionsfilling lengthsfinitely presented groupsisoperimetric functionsvan Kampen diagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: Filling length measures the length of the contracting closed loops in a null-homotopy. The filling length function of Gromov for a finitely presented group measures the filling length as a function of length of edge-loops in the Cayley 2-complex. We give a bound on the filling length function in terms of the log of an isoperimetric function multiplied by a (simultaneously realisable) isodiametric function.

Review text

The authors prove that the filling length is well behaved under change of presentation of a finitely presented group \(G\). They also prove that the filling length admits a bound of the form \([g+1][\log(f+1)+1]\) whenever \((f, g)\) is an AD-pair for a finite presentation of the group \(G\), i.e. \(f\) is an isoperimetric function, and \(g\) is an isodiametric one realised simultaneously. It is shown that if \(x^r\) is an isoperimetric function (\(r\geq 2\)) then \((x^r,x^{r-1})\) is an AD-pair. Also it is proved that for all finite presentations the filling length is bounded by the exponent of an isodiametric function.

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