Filling Invariants of Stratified Nilpotent Lie Groups

Abstract

Filling invariants are measurements of a metric space describing the behaviour of isoperimetric inequalities. In this article we examine filling functions and higher divergence functions. We prove for a class of stratified nilpotent Lie groups that in the low dimensions the filling functions grow as fast as the ones of the Euclidean space and in the high dimensions slower than the filling functions of the Euclidean space. We do this by developing a purely algebraic condition on the Lie algebra of a stratified nilpotent Lie group. Further, we find a sufficient criterion for such groups to have a filling function in a special dimension with faster growth as the appropriate filling function of the Euclidean space. Further we bound the higher divergence functions of stratified nilpotent Lie groups.