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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788798703321

Titolo

Discrete groups and geometric structures : Workshop on Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures, with Applications III, May 26-30, 2008, Kortrijk, Belgium / / Karel Dekimpe, Paul Igodt, Alain Valette, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

0-8218-8180-9

0-8218-4647-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, ; 501 , 0271-4132

Disciplina

512/.2

Soggetti

Discrete groups

Geometrical constructions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents --  Preface --  List of Participants --  Complex hyperbolic lattices --  Rank-one isometries of proper CAT(0)-spaces --  Trace polynomial for simple loops on the twice punctured torus --  Simplicial volume of products and fiber bundles --  Homology of Hantzsche-Wendt groups --  1. Introduction --  2. Facts and Preliminaries --  3. Algorithm for Computing Homology --  4. Example of Didicosm --  5. Applications to Low Dimensions --  6. Further Developments --  References --  Seifert fibred structure and rigidity on real Bott towers --  Exotic circles in groups of piecewise smooth circle homeomorphisms --  Groups generated by spine reflections admitting crooked fundamental domains.