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A short proof of Gromov's filling inequality

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We give a very short and rather elementary proof of Gromov's filling volume inequality for n-dimensional Lipschitz cycles (with integer and Z_2-coefficients) in LL^\infty-spaces. This inequality is used in the proof of Gromov's systolic inequality for closed aspherical Riemannian manifolds and is often regarded as the difficult step therein.

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@article{arxiv.math/0703889,
  title  = {A short proof of Gromov's filling inequality},
  author = {Stefan Wenger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0703889},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages