Combinatorial and geometric group theory : Edinburgh, 1993 / edited by Andrew J. Duncan, N.D. Gilbert, James Howie.

Contributor(s): Duncan, Andrew J | Gilbert, N. D | Howie, James | ICMS Workshop on Geometric and Combinatorial Methods in Group
Language: English Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c2013Description: 1 online resource (ix, 325 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781107091665; 9780511566073Subject(s): Combinatorial group theory -- Congresses | Geometric group theory -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 512.5 Online resources: Full text available at Cambridge University Press Click here to view
Contents:
On bounded languages and the geometry of nilpotent groups M. R. Bridson and R. H. Gilman Finitely presented groups and the finite generation of exterior powers C. J. B. Brookes Semigroup presentations and minimal ideals C. M. Campbell, E. F. Robertson, N. Ruskuc and R. M. Thomas Generalized trees and Lambda-trees I. M. Chiswell The mathematician who had little wisdom: a story and some mathematics D. E. Cohen Palindromic automorphisms of free groups D. J. Collins A freiheitssatz for certain one-relator amalgamated products B. Fine, F. Roehl and G. Rosenberger Isoperimetric functions of groups and exotic cohomology S. M. Gersten Some embedding theorems and undecidability questions for groups C. M. Gordon Some results on bounded cohomology R. I. Grigorchuk On perfect subgroups of one-relator groups J. Harlander Weight tests and hyperbolic groups G. Huck and S. Rosebrock A non-residually finite, relatively finitely presented group in the variety N2A O. G. Kharlampovich and M. V. Sapir Hierarchical decompositions, generalized Tate cohomology and groups of type FP P. H. Kropholler Tree-lattices and lattices in Lie groups A. Lubotzky Generalizations of Fibonacci numbers, groups and manifolds C. Maclachlan Knotted surfaces in the 4-sphere with no minimal Seifert manifolds T. Maeda The higher geometric invariants of modules over Noetherian group rings H. Meinert On calculation of width in free groups A. Yu Ol'shanskii Hilbert modular groups and isoperimetric inequalities C. Pittet On systems of equations in free groups A. A. Razborov Cogrowth and essentiality in groups and algebras A. Rosenmann Regular geodesic languages for 2-step nilpotent groups M. Stoll Finding indivisible Nielsen paths for a train track map E. C. Turner More on Burnside's problem E. Zelmanov Problem session.
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On bounded languages and the geometry of nilpotent groups M. R. Bridson and R. H. Gilman
Finitely presented groups and the finite generation of exterior powers C. J. B. Brookes
Semigroup presentations and minimal ideals C. M. Campbell, E. F. Robertson, N. Ruskuc and R. M. Thomas
Generalized trees and Lambda-trees I. M. Chiswell
The mathematician who had little wisdom: a story and some mathematics D. E. Cohen
Palindromic automorphisms of free groups D. J. Collins
A freiheitssatz for certain one-relator amalgamated products B. Fine, F. Roehl and G. Rosenberger
Isoperimetric functions of groups and exotic cohomology S. M. Gersten
Some embedding theorems and undecidability questions for groups C. M. Gordon
Some results on bounded cohomology R. I. Grigorchuk
On perfect subgroups of one-relator groups J. Harlander
Weight tests and hyperbolic groups G. Huck and S. Rosebrock
A non-residually finite, relatively finitely presented group in the variety N2A O. G. Kharlampovich and M. V. Sapir
Hierarchical decompositions, generalized Tate cohomology and groups of type FP
P. H. Kropholler
Tree-lattices and lattices in Lie groups A. Lubotzky
Generalizations of Fibonacci numbers, groups and manifolds C. Maclachlan
Knotted surfaces in the 4-sphere with no minimal Seifert manifolds T. Maeda
The higher geometric invariants of modules over Noetherian group rings H. Meinert
On calculation of width in free groups A. Yu Ol'shanskii
Hilbert modular groups and isoperimetric inequalities C. Pittet
On systems of equations in free groups A. A. Razborov
Cogrowth and essentiality in groups and algebras A. Rosenmann
Regular geodesic languages for 2-step nilpotent groups M. Stoll
Finding indivisible Nielsen paths for a train track map E. C. Turner
More on Burnside's problem E. Zelmanov
Problem session.

Authoritative collection of surveys and papers that will be indispensable to all research workers in the area.

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