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Algebraic relator area and the Dehn function of a finite presentation

Definition

Fix a finite presentation $P = ⟨ X ∣ R ⟩$ . If a word $w$ on $X ⊔ X^{- 1}$ is trivial in the presented group, then by The normal closure of $R$ is the set of finite products of conjugates of elements of $R$ and their inverses it can be written in the free group as

$w = \prod_{j = 1}^{m} u_{j} r_{j}^{ε_{j}} u_{j}^{- 1},$

where each $r_{j} \in R$ and each $ε_{j} \in {1, - 1}$ .

The algebraic relator area ${Area}_{P} (w)$ is the least such integer $m$ . The Dehn function of $P$ is

$δ_{P} (n) = \max {{Area}_{P} (w) : w =_{P} 1, ∣ w ∣ \leq n} .$

It is defined on $N$ and only measures null words.

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Sources

John Meier, Groups, Graphs and Trees (standard reference, not scraped)
Dexter Chua after H. Wilton, Topics in Geometric Group Theory (standard reference, not scraped)