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Quantitative chain extensions and integral cohomological fillings

Franziska Hofmann·Clara Loeh
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We develop two methods in quantitative homological algebra: A declarative approach to integral cohomological filling problems and a quantitatively controlled replacement of normed chain complexes by their homology complex. Both methods are connected through so-called chain extensions. As applications, we obtain transparent proofs for uniform integral simplicial cohomological fillings for subdivisions of simplicial complexes, for uniform integral cohomological fillings of certain finite coverings, and for lower bounds of the $\ell^1$-semi-norm on product spaces.

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Franziska Hofmann, Clara Loeh. 2026-10-02. Quantitative chain extensions and integral cohomological fillings. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02987

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