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We show that each of the three R. Thompson groups F, T,and V, satisfy polynomial isoperimetric inequality.
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Guba, V.S. (2000). Polynomial Isoperimetric Inequalities for Richard Thompson’s Groups F, T, and V . In: Birget, JC., Margolis, S., Meakin, J., Sapir, M. (eds) Algorithmic Problems in Groups and Semigroups. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1388-8_5
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