Geometric Group Theory Down Under : : Proceedings of a Special Year in Geometric Group Theory, Canberra, Australia, 1996 / / ed. by Charles F. Miller, John Cossey, Michael Shapiro, Walter D. Neumann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Mathematics - 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Berceanu, Barbu,; Bieri, Robert,; Bowditch, B. H.,; Cannon, J. W.,; Charney, Ruth,; Crisp, John,; Floyd, W. J.,; Hudson, John F. P.,; Kantor, William M.,; Lehrer, G. I.,; Miller III, C. F.,; Morris, Sidney A.,; Mosher, Lee,; Neumann, Walter D.,; Obraztsov, Viatcheslav N.,; Ol\x27shanskii, A. Yu.,; Parry, W. R.,; Penttila, Tim,; Pittet, Christophe,; Robertson, Edmund F.,; Ruškuc, Nikola,; Saloff-Coste, Laurent,; Shapiro, Michael,; Springer, T. A.,; Stallings, John R.,; Swarup, G. A.,; Thomas, Richard M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cossey, John,; Miller, Charles F.,; Neumann, Walter D.,; Shapiro, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Proceedings in Mathematics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

• I-XII
• The topology of polynomial varieties
• Finiteness length and connectivity length for groups
• Convergence groups and configuration spaces
• Groups, semigroups and finite presentations
• Conformal modulus: the graph paper invariant or the conformal shape of an algorithm
• Injectivity of the positive monoid for some infinite type Artin groups
• Injective maps between Artin groups
• The intersection of flat subsets of a braid group
• Reconstructing simple group actions
• Intersection multiplicities and reflection subquotients of unitary reflection groups I
• Some examples of hyperbolic groups
• Embedding free amalgams of discrete groups in non-discrete topological groups
• Indiscrete representations, laminations, and tilings
• Automatic structures on central extensions
• Distortion functions for subgroups
• Amenable groups, isoperimetric profiles and random walks
• Whitehead graphs on handlebodies
• List of Contributors
• List of Participants