Isoperimetric Inequalities using Varopoulos Transport

Abstract

The main results in this paper provide upper bounds of the second order Dehn functions for three-dimensional groups Nil and Sol. These upper bounds are obtained by using the Varopoulos transport argument on dual graphs. The first step is to start with reduced handlebody diagrams of the three-dimensional balls either immersed or embedded in the universal covers of each group and then define dual graphs using the 0-handles as vertices, 1-handles as edges. The idea is to reduce the original isoperimetric problem involving volume of three-dimensional balls and areas of their boundary spheres to a problem involving Varopoulos' notion of volume and boundary of finite domains in dual graphs.