High-dimensional fillings in Heisenberg groups

DOI10.1007/S12220-015-9601-YzbMATH Open1380.20045arXiv1006.1636OpenAlexW2148751165MaRDI QIDQ282837FDOQ282837

Authors: Robert Young 

Publication date: 12 May 2016

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use intersections with horizontal manifolds to show that high-dimensional cycles in the Heisenberg group can be approximated efficiently by simplicial cycles. This lets us calculate all of the higher-order Dehn functions of the Heisenberg groups, thus proving a conjecture of Gromov.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1636

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zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupsub-Riemannian geometryCarnot geometryDehn functionsfilling inequalities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Nilpotent groups (20F18)

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