Snowflake groups, Perron-Frobenius eigenvalues and isoperimetric spectra.

DOI10.2140/GT.2009.13.141zbMATH Open1228.20031arXivmath/0608155OpenAlexW1975022404MaRDI QIDQ1006124FDOQ1006124

Authors: Noel Brady, Martin R. Bridson, Max Forester, Krishnan Shankar 

Publication date: 19 March 2009

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The k-dimensional Dehn (or isoperimetric) function of a group bounds the volume of efficient ball-fillings of k-spheres mapped into k-connected spaces on which the group acts properly and cocompactly; the bound is given as a function of the volume of the sphere. We advance significantly the observed range of behavior for such functions. First, to each non-negative integer matrix P and positive rational number r, we associate a finite, aspherical 2-complex X_{r,P} and calculate the Dehn function of its fundamental group G_{r,P} in terms of r and the Perron-Frobenius eigenvalue of P. The range of functions obtained includes x^s, where s is an arbitrary rational number greater than or equal to 2. By repeatedly forming multiple HNN extensions of the groups G_{r,P} we exhibit a similar range of behavior among higher-dimensional Dehn functions, proving in particular that for each positive integer k and rational s greater than or equal to (k+1)/k there exists a group with k-dimensional Dehn function x^s. Similar isoperimetric inequalities are obtained for arbitrary manifold pairs (M,partial M) in addition to (B^{k+1},S^k).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608155

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zbMATH Keywords

isoperimetric inequalitiesDehn functionsfinitely presented groupsfilling invariantsisoperimetric functionssubgroup distortionisoperimetric spectra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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