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Homological Dehn functions of groups of type $FP_2$

Group Theory 2021-07-13 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We prove foundational results for homological Dehn functions of groups of type FP2FP_2 such as superadditivity and the invariance under quasi-isometry. We then study the homological Dehn functions of Leary's groups GL(S)G_L(S) providing methods to obtain uncountably many groups with a given homological Dehn function. This allows us to show that there exist groups of type FP2FP_2 with quartic homological Dehn function and unsolvable word problem.

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@article{arxiv.2012.00730,
  title  = {Homological Dehn functions of groups of type $FP_2$},
  author = {Noel Brady and Robert Kropholler and Ignat Soroko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00730},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

v3: Updates to section 7: answered question 7.13 affirmatively, shorter proof of Th. 7.3 added, minor improvements throughout; v2: Section 2 reorganized, one figure and few references added, minor changes throughout. 44 pages, 5 figures