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 others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cleary, Sean, 1965-

Series:

Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; v. 296.

Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; 296

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Combinatorial group theory--Congresses.

Combinatorial group theory.

Geometric group theory--Congresses.

Geometric group theory.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, [2002]

Contents:

Open problems in combinatorial group theory. Second edition / Gilbert Baumslag, Alexei G. Myasnikov, Vladimir Shpilrain 1

Boundaries of hyperbolic groups / Nadia Benakli, Ilya Kapovich 39

Thin groups of fractions / Patrick Dehornoy 95

Every abelian group universally equivalent to a discriminating group is elementarily equivalent to a discriminating group / Anthony M. Gaglione, Benjamin Fine, Dennis Spellman 129

Weakly finitely presented infinite periodic groups / Sergei V. Ivanov 139

Positively generated subgroups of free groups and the Hanna Neumann conjecture / Bilal Khan 155

On the proalgebraic completion of a finitely generated group / Andy R. Magid 171

On the Andrews-Curtis equivalence / Alexei D. Myasnikov, Alexei G. Myasnikov, Vladimir Shpilrain 183

Test ranks of finitely generated abelian groups / Charles F. Rocca Jr., Edward C. Turner 199

Classification of the finite generalized tetrahedron groups / Gerhard Rosenberger, Martin Scheer 207

Fixed subgroups in free groups: A survey / Enric Ventura 231

Automorphisms of surfaces / Anthony Weaver 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0821828223

OCLC:

49821826