Volume distortion in groups.

DOI10.2140/AGT.2011.11.655MaRDI QIDQ631331zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hanna Bennett

Publication date 23 March 2011

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.1096

zbMATH Keywords

compact discontinuous actionsDehn functionsfilling volumesquasi-isometry invariantssubgroup distortionsvolume distortions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Given a space $Y$ in $X$, a cycle in $Y$ may be filled with a chain in two ways: either by restricting the chain to $Y$ or by allowing it to be anywhere in $X$. When the pair $(G,H)$ acts on $(X,Y)$, we define the $k$-volume distortion function of $H$ in $G$ to measure the large-scale difference between the volumes of such fillings. We show that these functions are quasi-isometry invariants, and thus independent of the choice of spaces, and provide several bounds in terms of other group properties, such as Dehn functions. We also compute the volume distortion in a number of examples, including characterizing the $k$-volume distortion of $$ in $$, where $M$ is a diagonalizable matrix. We use this to prove a conjecture of Gersten.

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