Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Participants
- 1 Group Actions and Riemann Surfaces
- 2 The Virtual Cohomological Dimension of Coxeter Groups
- 3 The Geometric Invariants of a Group A Survey with Emphasis on the Homotopical Approach
- 4 String Rewriting — A Survey for Group Theorists
- 5 One Relator Products and High-Powered Relators
- 6 An Inaccessible Group
- 7 Isoperimetric and Isodiametric Functions of Finite Presentations
- 8 On Hibert's Metric for Simplices
- 9 Software for Automatic Groups, Isomorphism Testing and Finitely Presented Groups
- 10 Proving Certain Groups Infinite
- 11 Some Applications of Small Cancellation Theory to One-Relator Groups and One-Relator Products
- 12 A Group Theoretic Proof of the Torus Theorem
- 13 N-Torsion and Applications
- 14 Surface Groups and Quasi-Convexity
- 15 Constructing Group Actions on Trees
- 16 Brick's Quasi Simple Filtrations and 3-Manifolds
- 17 A Note on Accessibility
- 18 Geometric Group Theory 1991 Problem List
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Participants
- 1 Group Actions and Riemann Surfaces
- 2 The Virtual Cohomological Dimension of Coxeter Groups
- 3 The Geometric Invariants of a Group A Survey with Emphasis on the Homotopical Approach
- 4 String Rewriting — A Survey for Group Theorists
- 5 One Relator Products and High-Powered Relators
- 6 An Inaccessible Group
- 7 Isoperimetric and Isodiametric Functions of Finite Presentations
- 8 On Hibert's Metric for Simplices
- 9 Software for Automatic Groups, Isomorphism Testing and Finitely Presented Groups
- 10 Proving Certain Groups Infinite
- 11 Some Applications of Small Cancellation Theory to One-Relator Groups and One-Relator Products
- 12 A Group Theoretic Proof of the Torus Theorem
- 13 N-Torsion and Applications
- 14 Surface Groups and Quasi-Convexity
- 15 Constructing Group Actions on Trees
- 16 Brick's Quasi Simple Filtrations and 3-Manifolds
- 17 A Note on Accessibility
- 18 Geometric Group Theory 1991 Problem List
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- Geometric Group Theory , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993