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Isoperimetric inequalities for Poincaré duality groups

Isoperimetric inequalities for Poincaré duality groups
Isoperimetric inequalities for Poincaré duality groups
We show that every oriented n-dimensional Poincaré duality group over a ∗-ring R is amenable or satisfies a linear homological isoperimetric inequality in dimension n−1. As an application, we prove the Tits alternative for such groups when n=2. We then deduce a new proof of the fact that when n=2 and R=Z then the group in question is a surface group.
0002-9939
4685-4698
Kielak, Dawid
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Kropholler, Peter
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Kielak, Dawid
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Kropholler, Peter
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Kielak, Dawid and Kropholler, Peter (2021) Isoperimetric inequalities for Poincaré duality groups. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 149 (11), 4685-4698. (doi:10.1090/proc/15596).

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We show that every oriented n-dimensional Poincaré duality group over a ∗-ring R is amenable or satisfies a linear homological isoperimetric inequality in dimension n−1. As an application, we prove the Tits alternative for such groups when n=2. We then deduce a new proof of the fact that when n=2 and R=Z then the group in question is a surface group.

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Accepted/In Press date: 17 March 2021
Published date: November 2021
Additional Information: Funding Information: Received by the editors August 15, 2020, and, in revised form, January 19, 2021, March 8, 2021, and March 17, 2021. 2020 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 20J06, 57P10. The first author was partly supported by a grant from the German Science Foundation (DFG) within the Priority Programme SPP2026 ‘Geometry at Infinity’. This work had received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Grant agreement No. 850930. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 American Mathematical Society. All rights reserved.

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Local EPrints ID: 447958
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/447958
ISSN: 0002-9939
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ORCID for Peter Kropholler: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5460-1512

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