Filling Lipschitz spheres in metric spaces

Abstract

We prove a homotopical Euclidean isoperimetric inequality for Lipschitz maps from the unit n-sphere into metric spaces admitting a bounded bicombing, which includes CAT(0)-spaces and normed vector spaces. To do so, we first refine the second-named author's Euclidean isoperimetric inequality for singular Lipschitz chains to this setting. Then, we show that a singular Lipschitz chain filling induces a Lipschitz map filling of almost the same volume or less, by adapting a strategy seen in work of Gromov and others.