Equivalence of geometric and combinatorial Dehn functions.

zbMath1042.20029arXivmath/0103081MaRDI QIDQ1866411

Jennifer Taback, José Burillo

Publication date: 7 April 2003

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0103081

zbMATH Keywords

finitely presented groupsDehn functionsvan Kampen diagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06)

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