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Homological Filling Functions with Coefficients

Group Theory 2024-10-22 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

How hard is it to fill a loop in a Cayley graph with an unoriented surface? Following a comment of Gromov in "Asymptotic invariants of infinite groups", we define homological filling functions of groups with coefficients in a group RR. Our main theorem is that the coefficients make a difference. That is, for every n1n \geq 1 and every pair of coefficient groups A,B{Z,Q}{Z/pZ:p prime}A, B \in \{\mathbb{Z},\mathbb{Q}\} \cup \{\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z} : p\text{ prime}\}, there is a group whose filling functions for nn-cycles with coefficients in AA and BB have different asymptotic behavior.

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@article{arxiv.2009.13489,
  title  = {Homological Filling Functions with Coefficients},
  author = {Xingzhe Li and Fedor Manin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.13489},
  year   = {2024}
}

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15 pages, 1 figure

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