On the isoperimetric constant of symmetric spaces of noncompact type
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Abstract:
We prove that the isoperimetric constant is positive for all symmetric spaces of noncompact type and compute it explicitly.References
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Additional Information
- Xiaodong Wang
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
- Email: xwang@math.msu.edu
- Received by editor(s): June 30, 2014
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 29, 2014
- Published electronically: April 29, 2015
- Communicated by: Guofang Wei
- © Copyright 2015 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 143 (2015), 4885-4891
- MSC (2010): Primary 53C35; Secondary 58J50
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/12601
- MathSciNet review: 3391046