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Office hours with a geometric group theorist /

Geometric group theory is the study of the interplay between groups and the spaces they act on, and has its roots in the works of Henri Poincaré, Felix Klein, J.H.C. Whitehead, and Max Dehn. Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist brings together leading experts who provide one-on-one instruct...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Clay, Matt (Editor ), Margalit, Dan, 1976- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Groups / Matt Clay and Dan Margalit
  • ... and spaces / Matt Clay and Dan Margalit
  • Groups acting on trees / Dan Margalit
  • Free groups and folding / Matt Clay
  • The ping-pong lemma / Johanna Mangahas
  • Automorphisms of free groups / Matt Clay
  • Quasi-isometries / Dan Margalit and Anne Thomas
  • Dehn functions / Timothy Riley
  • Hyperbolic groups / Moon Duchin
  • Ends of groups / Nic Koban and John Meier
  • Asymptotic dimension / Greg Bell
  • Growth of groups / Eric Freden
  • Coxeter groups / Adam Piggott
  • Right-angled artin groups / Robert W. Bell and Matt Clay
  • Lamplighter groups / Jennifer Taback
  • Thompson's group / Sean Cleary
  • Mapping class groups / Tara Brendle, Leah Childers, and Dan Margalit
  • Braids / Aaron Abrams.