Non-nonpositive curvature of some non-cocompact arithmetic groups

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Kevin Wortman, University of Utah
Fine Hall 322

I'll explain why arithmetic subgroups of semisimple groups of relative Q-type $A_n$, $B_n$, $C_n$, $D_n$, $E_6$, or $E_7$ have an exponential lower bound to their isoperimetric inequality in the dimension that is 1 less than the real rank of the semisimple group.