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 R. Our main theorem is that the coefficients make a difference. That is, for every n≥1 and every pair of coefficient groups A,B∈{Z,Q}∪{Z/pZ:p prime}, there is a group whose filling functions for n-cycles with coefficients in A and B have different asymptotic behavior.
@article{10_4171_ggd_675,
author = {Xingzhe Li and Fedor Manin},
title = {Homological filling functions with coefficients},
journal = {Groups, geometry, and dynamics},
pages = {889--907},
year = {2022},
volume = {16},
number = {3},
doi = {10.4171/ggd/675},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.4171/ggd/675/}
}
TY - JOUR
AU - Xingzhe Li
AU - Fedor Manin
TI - Homological filling functions with coefficients
JO - Groups, geometry, and dynamics
PY - 2022
SP - 889
EP - 907
VL - 16
IS - 3
UR - http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.4171/ggd/675/
DO - 10.4171/ggd/675
ID - 10_4171_ggd_675
ER -