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

DOI10.4310/JDG/1242134370MaRDI QIDQ2389161zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Martin R. Bridson, Timothy Riley

Publication date 15 July 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511004, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1242134370

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)

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.

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