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Filling Length in Finitely Presentable Groups

Group Theory 2010-08-12 v1 Geometric Topology

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.

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@article{arxiv.math/0008030,
  title  = {Filling Length in Finitely Presentable Groups},
  author = {S. Gersten and T. Riley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0008030},
  year   = {2010}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures