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G^3 = Geometric Group Theory on the Gulf Coast
March 15-17, 2002
The University of New Orleans and the University of South Alabama
New Orleans, LA, USA

Organizers
Stephen Brick, Craig Jensen, Igor Mineyev

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Isoperimetric inequalities for nilpotent groups
by
S. M. Gersten
Coauthors: D. F. Holt, T. R. Riley

We prove that every finitely generated nilpotent group of class c admits a polynomial isoperimetric function of degree c+1 and a linear upper bound on its filling length function.

Paper reference: arXiv:math.GR/0201261

Date received: March 4, 2002

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