Cohomological lower bounds for isoperimetric functions on groups

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(97)00070-0zbMath0933.20026WikidataQ127443798 ScholiaQ127443798MaRDI QIDQ1292635

Steve M. Gersten

Publication date: 20 January 2000

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

quasi-isometry invariantsword hyperbolic groupsfinitely generated groupsisoperimetric inequalitiesfinitely presented groupsgroup actions on treesisoperimetric functionssplittings of groupsDehn functionsfinite presentationscombination theoremsMayer-Vietoris sequences\(\ell_\infty\)-cohomologymetabolic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06)

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