Extrinsic versus intrinsic diameter for Riemannian filling-discs and van Kampen diagrams

DOI10.4310/JDG/1242134370zbMATH Open1165.49040arXivmath/0511004OpenAlexW2128640313WikidataQ115171869 ScholiaQ115171869MaRDI QIDQ2389161FDOQ2389161

Authors: Martin R. Bridson, Timothy Riley 

Publication date: 15 July 2009

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The diameter of a disc filling a loop in the universal covering of a Riemannian manifold may be measured extrinsically using the distance function on the ambient space or intrinsically using the induced length metric on the disc. Correspondingly, the diameter of a van Kampen diagram filling a word that represents the identity in a finitely presented group can either be measured intrinsically its 1-skeleton or extrinsically in the Cayley graph of the group. We construct the first examples of closed manifolds and finitely presented groups for which this choice -- intrinsic versus extrinsic -- gives rise to qualitatively different min-diameter filling functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511004

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zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graphRiemannian manifoldcoveringvan Kampen diagram

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

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