Overview
- Contains accounts of many recent developments in Geometric Group Theory and shows the interaction between the word problem and geometry continues to be a central theme
- Illustrated with many figures and containing numerous exercises and open questions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advanced Courses in Mathematics - CRM Barcelona (ACMBIRK)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Dehn Functions and Non-Positive Curvature
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Back Matter
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Filling Functions
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Geometry of the Word Problem for Finitely Generated Groups
Authors: Noel Brady, Tim Riley, Hamish Short
Series Title: Advanced Courses in Mathematics - CRM Barcelona
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-7950-6
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Basel 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-7949-0Published: 12 December 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7643-7950-6Published: 11 May 2007
Series ISSN: 2297-0304
Series E-ISSN: 2297-0312
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 206
Topics: Group Theory and Generalizations, Convex and Discrete Geometry, Combinatorics, Order, Lattices, Ordered Algebraic Structures