Combinatorial and geometric group theory : AMS special session, combinatorial group theory, November 4-5, 2000, New York, New York : AMS special session, computational group theory, April 28-29, 2001, Hoboken, New Jersey / / Sean Cleary [and three others], editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817174503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2002]; ©2002
• ISBN: 0-8218-7886-7; 0-8218-5632-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 296
• Disciplina: 512/.2
• Soggetti: Combinatorial group theory; Geometric group theory
• 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""; ""Open problems in combinatorial group theory. Second edition""; ""1. Outstanding Problems""; ""2. Free Groups""; ""3. One-relator Groups""; ""4. Finitely Presented Groups""; ""5. Hyperbolic and Automatic Groups""; ""6. Braid Groups""; ""7. Nilpotent Groups""; ""8. Metabelian Groups""; ""9. Solvable Groups""; ""10. Groups of Matrices""; ""11. Growth""; ""Boundaries of hyperbolic groups""; ""Thin groups of fractions""; ""Every abelian group universally equivalent to a discriminating group is elementarily equivalent to a discriminating group""; ""Weakly finitely presented infinite periodic groups""""Positively generated subgroups of free groups and the Hanna Neumann conjecture""; ""On the proalgebraic completion of a finitely generated group""; ""On the Andrews-Curtis equivalence""; ""Test ranks of finitely generated abelian groups""; ""Classification of the finite generalized tetrahedron groups""; ""Fixed subgroups in free groups: A survey""; ""Automorphisms of surfaces""