On a theorem of Kontsevich.
For at least 3, the Dehn functions of and are exponential. Hatcher and Vogtmann proved that they are at most exponential, and the complementary lower bound in the case was established by Bridson and Vogtmann. Handel and Mosher completed the proof by reducing the lower bound for bigger than 3 to the case . In this note we give a shorter, more direct proof of this last reduction.
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