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Filling boundaries of coarse manifolds in semisimple and solvable arithmetic groups

Group Theory 2011-06-07 v2

Abstract

We provide partial results towards a conjectural generalization of a theorem of Lubotzky-Mozes-Raghunathan for arithmetic groups (over number fields or function fields) that implies, in low dimensions, both polynomial isoperimetric inequalities and finiteness properties. As a tool in our proof, we establish polynomial isoperimetric inequalities and finiteness properties for certain solvable groups that appear as subgroups of parabolic groups in semisimple groups, thus generalizing a theorem of Bux. We also develop a precise version of reduction theory for arithmetic groups whose proof is, for the most part, independent of whether the underlying global field is a number field or a function field.

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@article{arxiv.1106.0162,
  title  = {Filling boundaries of coarse manifolds in semisimple and solvable arithmetic groups},
  author = {Mladen Bestvina and Alex Eskin and Kevin Wortman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.0162},
  year   = {2011}
}

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36 pages