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Introduction to Lambda Trees.

The theory of?-trees has its origin in the work of Lyndon on length functions in groups. The first definition of an R -tree was given by Tits in 1977. The importance of?-trees was established by Morgan and Shalen, who showed how to compactify a generalisation of Teichmüller space for a finitely gen...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chiswell, Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 5. Hyperbolic surfaces 6. Spaces of actions on R-trees ; Chapter 5. Free Actions ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Harrison's Theorem ; 3. Some examples ; 4. Free actions of surface groups ; 5. Non-standard free groups ; Chapter 6. Rips' Theorem ; 1. Systems of isometries.
  • 2. Minimal components 3. Independent generators ; 4. Interval exchanges and conclusion ; References ; Index of Notation ; Index.