Superexponential Dehn functions inside CAT(0) groups

Abstract

We construct 4-dimensional CAT(0) groups containing finitely presented subgroups whose Dehn functions are $\exp^{(n)}(x^m)$ for integers $n, m \geq 1$ and 6-dimensional CAT(0) groups containing finitely presented subgroups whose Dehn functions are $\exp^{(n)}(x^\alpha)$ for integers $n \geq 1$ and $\alpha$ dense in $[1,\infty)$. This significantly expands the known geometric behavior of subgroups of CAT(0) groups.