Coarse Embeddings and Homological Filling functions

Seminar: 
Geometry & Topology
Event time: 
Tuesday, September 8, 2020 - 4:00pm
Location: 
https://yale.zoom.us/j/96501374645
Speaker: 
Mark Pengitore
Speaker affiliation: 
OSU
Event description: 

In this talk, we will relate homological filling functions and the existence of coarse embeddings. In particular, we will demonstrate that a coarse embedding of a group into a group of geometric dimension 2 induces an inequality on homological Dehn functions in dimension 2. As an application of this, we are able to show that if a finitely presented group coarsely embeds into a hyperbolic group of geometric dimension 2, then it is hyperbolic. Another application is a characterization of subgroups of groups with quadratic Dehn function. If there is enough time, we will talk about various higher dimensional generalizations of our main result.

Special note: 
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