Homological and homotopical Dehn functions are different

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1207377110MaRDI QIDQ5170980zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Aaron Abrams, Noel Brady, Pallavi Dani, Robert Young

Publication date 25 July 2014

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0308

zbMATH Keywords

filling area

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: The homological and homotopical Dehn functions are different ways of measuring the difficulty of filling a closed curve inside a group or a space. The homological Dehn function measures fillings of cycles by chains, while the homotopical Dehn function measures fillings of curves by disks. Since the two definitions involve different sorts of boundaries and fillings, there is no a priori relationship between the two functions, but prior to this work there were no known examples of finitely-presented groups for which the two functions differ. This paper gives the first such examples, constructed by amalgamating a free-by-cyclic group with several Bestvina-Brady groups.

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