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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154748903321

Titolo

Combinatorial Group Theory and Topology. (AM-111), Volume 111 / / John R. Stallings, S. M. Gersten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016]

©1987

ISBN

1-4008-8208-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (565 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Annals of Mathematics Studies ; ; 334

Disciplina

512/.22

Soggetti

Combinatorial group theory

Topology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Presentations from a conference held at Alta Lodge, Utah, July 15-18, 1984.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- I. Combinatorial Group Theory -- PROBLEMS IN COMBINATORIAL GROUP THEORY / Lyndon, Roger -- POINCARÉ DUALITY GROUPS OF DIMENSION TWO ARE SURFACE GROUPS / Eckmann, Beno -- HOW TO GENERALIZE ONE-RELATOR GROUP THEORY / Howie, James -- GRAPHICAL THEORY OF AUTOMORPHISMS OF FREE GROUPS / Stallings, John R. -- PEAK REDUCTION AND AUTOMORPHISMS OF FREE GROUPS AND FREE PRODUCTS / Collins, Donald J . -- NONSINGULAR EQUATIONS OF SMALL WEIGHT OVER GROUPS / Gersten, S. M. -- GRAPH-THEORETIC LEMMA AND GROUP-EMBEDDINGS / Stallings, John R. -- THE TODD-COXETER PROCESS, USING GRAPHS / Stallings, John R. / Wolf, A. Royce -- A SUBGROUP THEOREM FOR PREGROUPS / Rimlinger, Frank -- GROUPS WITH A RATIONAL CROSS-SECTION / Gilman, Robert H. -- ON THE RATIONAL GROWTH OF VIRTUALLY NILPOTENT GROUPS / Benson, Max -- SJOGREN'S THEOREM FOR DIMENSION SUBGROUPS - THE METABELIAN CASE -- ON GROUP PRESENTATIONS, COPRODUCTS AND INVERSES / Craggs, Robert / Howie, James -- ON COMPLEXES DOMINATED BY A TWO-COMPLEX / Ratcliffe, John G. -- SUBCOMPLEXES OF TWO-COMPLEXES AND PROJECTIVE CROSSED MODULES / Dyer, Micheal -- LENGTH FUNCTIONS OF GROUP ACTIONS ON A-TREES / Alperin, Roger / Bass, Hyman -- II. Very Low Dimensional Topology --



RESIDUAL FINITENESS FOR 3-MANIFOLDS / Hempel, John -- THE NIELSEN-THURSTON THEORY OF SURFACE AUTOMORPHISMS / Bleiler, Steven A. -- WHITEHEAD GROUPS OF CERTAIN HYPERBOLIC MANIFOLDS, II / Nicas, A. J / Stark, C.W. -- CHARACTERIZATION OF FINITE SUBGROUPS OF THE MAPPING-CLASS GROUP / Gilman, Jane -- A SEQUENCE OF PSEUDO-ANOSOV DIFFEOMORPHISMS / Neuwirth, L. / Patterson, N. -- DEHN'S ALGORITHM REVISITED, WITH APPLICATIONS TO SIMPLE CURVES ON SURFACES / Birman, Joan S. / Series, Caroline -- PATHS OF GEODESICS AND GEOMETRIC INTERSECTION NUMBERS: I / Cohen, Marshall / Lustig, Martin -- PATHS OF GEODESICS AND GEOMETRIC INTERSECTION NUMBERS: II / Lustig, Martin -- SELECTED PROBLEMS / Gersten, S. M. -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Group theory and topology are closely related. The region of their interaction, combining the logical clarity of algebra with the depths of geometric intuition, is the subject of Combinatorial Group Theory and Topology. The work includes papers from a conference held in July 1984 at Alta Lodge, Utah.Contributors to the book include Roger Alperin, Hyman Bass, Max Benson, Joan S. Birman, Andrew J. Casson, Marshall Cohen, Donald J. Collins, Robert Craggs, Michael Dyer, Beno Eckmann, Stephen M. Gersten, Jane Gilman, Robert H. Gilman, Narain D. Gupta, John Hempel, James Howie, Roger Lyndon, Martin Lustig, Lee P. Neuwirth, Andrew J. Nicas, N. Patterson, John G. Ratcliffe, Frank Rimlinger, Caroline Series, John R. Stallings, C. W. Stark, and A. Royce Wolf.