Regular geometric cycles

Abstract

Let $\pi$ be a finitely presented group. If h is a non trivial homology class in Hn($\pi$; Z), a theorem of Gromov (see [Gro83], 6) asserts the existence of regular geometric cycles which represent h, whose relative systolic volume is as close as desired to the systolic volume of h, in which we can control the volume of balls of radius less than half of the cycle's relative systol. The aim of this note is to explain and provide a complete proof of this result.