Geometric methods in group theory : AMS Special Session Geometric Group Theory, October 5-6, 2002, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts : special session at the First Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Real Sociedad Matemática Española, June 18-21, 2003, Seville, Spain / / José Burillo [and four others], editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817167803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2005]; ©2005
• ISBN: 0-8218-7962-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 372
• Disciplina: 512/.2
• Soggetti: Group theory; Finite groups
• 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""; ""Properly 3-realizable groups: a survey""; ""Free actions on Zn-trees: a survey""; ""Characterizing rigid simplicial actions on trees""; ""Improving an algorithm to solve multiple simultaneous conjugacy problems in braid groups""; ""On singular Artin monoids""; ""A surface groups analogue of a theorem of Magnus""; ""Shift automorphisms of finite order""; ""Counting primitive elements of a free group""; ""A rank formula for amalgamated products with finite amalgam""; ""A simple proof of a theorem of Karrass and Solitar""; ""Distortion functions and the membership problem for submonoids of groups and monoids""""Thompson's group F is maximally nonconvex""; ""Seesaw words in Thompson's group F""; ""Piecewise-projective representation of Thompson's group T""; ""Bijective quasi-isometries of amenable groups""; ""On definitions of relatively hyperbolic groups""; ""Embedding wreath-like products in finitely presented groups. I""; ""Metric properties of the lamplighter group as an automata group""; ""An example of non-contracting weakly branch automaton group""; ""Travelling salesman problem in groups""