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ISOPERIMETRIC FUNCTIONS OF GROUPS ACTING ON Lδ-SPACES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2007

JON CORSON  and
DOHYOUNG RYANG
JON CORSON
Affiliation:
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA e-mail: jcorson@bama.ua.edu
DOHYOUNG RYANG
Affiliation:
Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama 35160, USA e-mail: dryang@talladega.edu
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Abstract.

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A finitely generated group acting properly, cocompactly, and by isometries on an Lδ-metric space is finitely presented and has a sub-cubic isoperimetric function.

Keywords

20F65
Type
Research Article
Information
Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 23 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 2007

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