Filling length in finitely presentable groups.

DOI10.1023/A:1019682203828zbMATH Open1040.20029arXivmath/0008030MaRDI QIDQ698115FDOQ698115

Timothy Riley, Steve M. Gersten

Publication date: 18 September 2002

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Filling length measures the length of the contracting closed loops in a null-homotopy. The filling length function of Gromov for a finitely presented group measures the filling length as a function of length of edge-loops in the Cayley 2-complex. We give a bound on the filling length function in terms of the log of an isoperimetric function multiplied by a (simultaneously realisable) isodiametric function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0008030

zbMATH Keywords

Dehn functionsfinitely presented groupsisoperimetric functionsvan Kampen diagramsfilling lengths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06)

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