Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist /

Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist / / ed. by Dan Margalit, Matt Clay.

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 instructi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Abrams, Aaron,
Bell, Greg,
Bell, Robert W.,
Brendle, Tara,
Childers, Leah,
Clay, Matt,
Cleary, Sean,
Duchin, Moon,
Freden, Eric,
Koban, Nic,
Mangahas, Johanna,
Margalit, Dan,
Meier, John,
Piggott, Adam,
Riley, Timothy,
Taback, Jennifer,
Thomas, Anne,
HerausgeberIn:
Clay, Matt,
Margalit, Dan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (456 p.) :; 136 color illus. 2 halftones. 86 line illus. 2 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1. Groups and Spaces
  • 1. Groups
  • 2. ... and Spaces
  • Part 2. Free Groups
  • 3. Groups Acting on Trees
  • 4. Free Groups and Folding
  • 5. The Ping-Pong Lemma
  • 6. Automorphisms of Free Groups
  • Part 3. Large Scale Geometry
  • 7. Quasi-isometries
  • 8. Dehn Functions
  • 9. Hyperbolic Groups
  • 10. Ends of Groups
  • 11. Asymptotic Dimension
  • 12. Growth of Groups
  • Part 4. Examples
  • 13. Coxeter Groups
  • 14. Right-Angled Artin Groups
  • 15. Lamplighter Groups
  • 16. Thompson's Group
  • 17. Mapping Class Groups
  • 18. Braids
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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