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G^3 = Geometric Group Theory on the Gulf Coast Conference
November 11-14, 2004

Pensacola Beach, Florida, USA

Organizers
Stephen Brick, Craig Jensen, Igor Mineyev

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Dehn functions of finitely presented groups
by
Noel Brady
University of Oklahoma
Coauthors: Martin Bridson, Max Forester, Krishnan Shankar

We give a general version of the snowflake construction introduced by Brady-Bridson produces groups with Dehn functions of the form n2logp(q) for any pair of integers 1 < p < q. Applications are given to the second order Dehn functions.

Date received: September 11, 2004

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