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A short proof of Gromov's filling inequality

Author(s): Stefan Wenger
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 2937-2941.
MSC (2000): Primary 53C23
Posted: April 7, 2008
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Abstract: We give a very short and rather elementary proof of Gromov's filling volume inequality for $ n$-dimensional Lipschitz cycles (with integer and $ \mathbb{Z}_2$-coefficients) in $ L^\infty$-spaces. This inequality is used in the proof of Gromov's systolic inequality for closed aspherical Riemannian manifolds and is often regarded as the difficult step therein.


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Additional Information:

Stefan Wenger
Affiliation: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 251 Mercer Street, New York, New York 10012
Email: wenger@cims.nyu.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09203-4
PII: S 0002-9939(08)09203-4
Keywords: Systolic inequality, isoperimetric inequality, Lipschitz chains
Received by editor(s): March 29, 2007
Posted: April 7, 2008
Communicated by: Jon G. Wolfson
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.


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