Simplicial volume and 0-strata of separating filtrations

Abstract

We use Papasoglu's method of area-minimizing separating sets to give an alternative proof, and explicit constants, for the following theorem of Guth and Braun--Sauer: If $M$ is a closed, oriented, $n$-dimensional manifold, with a Riemannian metric such that every ball of radius $1$ in the universal cover of $M$ has volume at most $V_1$, then the simplicial volume of $M$ is at most the volume of $M$ times a constant depending on $n$ and $V_1$.

23 pages, 1 figure; revised for publication in Journal of Topology and Analysis