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The Dehn functions of Stallings–Bieri groups

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We show that the Stallings–Bieri groups, along with certain other Bestvina–Brady groups, have quadratic Dehn function.

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The authors are grateful to Noel Brady for many valuable discussions related to this work, and to the referee, for helpful comments that have improved the paper. The second author was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-1105765.

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Carter, W., Forester, M. The Dehn functions of Stallings–Bieri groups. Math. Ann. 368, 671–683 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-016-1470-6

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