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Higher divergence for nilpotent groups

Metric Geometry 2018-07-30 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

The higher divergence of a metric space describes its isoperimetric behaviour at infinity. It is closely related to the higher-dimensional Dehn functions, but has more requirements to the fillings. We prove that these additional requirements do not have an essential impact for many nilpotent Lie groups. As a corollary, we obtain the higher divergence of the Heisenberg groups in all dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1807.10305,
  title  = {Higher divergence for nilpotent groups},
  author = {Moritz Gruber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.10305},
  year   = {2018}
}

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14 pages, 4 figures

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