Random Dehn function of groups

DOI10.1142/S179352532550027XMaRDI QIDQ7227418zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jerónimo García-Mejía, Antoine Goldsborough

Publication date 10 April 2026

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/S179352532550027X

zbMATH Keywords

acylindrically hyperbolic groupDehn functionfilling invariantMarkov chainrandom walk

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

Review text

The paper introduces a random Dehn function associated with a finitely presented group, a stochastic process on the group and a quasi-geodesic combing. This invariant is defined as the supremum, over all starting points, of the expected filling area of loops obtained by following a sample path and then closing it with the chosen combing. The authors also consider tame Markov chains and tame quasi-homogeneous Markov chains and they show that in the non-amenable setting the resulting random Dehn function is a quasi-isometry invariant for this class of processes.\N\NOne of the main results shows that if \(G\) is a finitely presented acylindrically hyperbolic group whose Dehn function is bounded above by a polynomial, then for every quasi-geodesic combing and every simple random walk one has\N\[\NR_\delta(n) \preceq \frac{n}{\log n}\,\delta_G(\log n) \preceq n^2.\N\]\NIn particular, if \(G\) is hyperbolic, then the random Dehn function is linear, while in the non-hyperbolic polynomial case it is strictly smaller than the usual Dehn function. The proof combines deviation inequalities for the relevant stochastic processes with a decomposition of the random loop into logarithmic pieces whose fillings are controlled by the ordinary Dehn function.\N\NThe paper also establishes analogous conclusions for tame Markov chains on non-elementary hyperbolic groups, non-elementary relatively hyperbolic groups, acylindrically hyperbolic \(3\)-manifold groups and fundamental groups of graphs of groups with nilpotent undistorted edge groups and polynomially bounded Dehn function, as well as for tame quasi-homogeneous Markov chains on mapping class groups, extra-large Artin groups and more generally well-behaved hierarchically hyperbolic groups. In this way the paper confirms, within this model, Gromov's intuition that an averaged filling profile can be asymptotically smaller than the usual Dehn function.

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