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Groups, languages, and geometry : 1998 AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Geometric Group Theory and Computer Science, July 5-9, 1998, Mount Holyoke College / Robert H. Gilman, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Geometric Group Theory and Computer Science (1998 : Mount Holyoke College), issuing body.
- Series:
- Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; 250.
- Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; 250
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geometric group theory--Congresses.
- Geometric group theory.
- Machine theory--Congresses.
- Machine theory.
- Formal languages--Congresses.
- Formal languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (150 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [1999]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume contains the proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Geometric Group Theory and Computer Science held at Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA). The conference was devoted to computational aspects of geometric group theory, a relatively young area of research which has grown out of an influx of ideas from topology and computer science into combinatorial group theory. The book reflects recent progress in this interesting new field. Included are articles about insights from computer experiments, applications of formal language theory, decision problems, and complexity problems. There is also a survey of open questions in combinatorial group theory. The volume will interest group theorists, topologists, and experts in automata and language theory.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Open Problems in Combinatorial Group Theory
- The Bar Problem-A Simple Tiling Problem which is N P-complete on the Euclidean Tessellation by Squares but which is Polynomial Time on the Hyperbolic Tessellations by 4g-gons, g ≥ 2
- When are Centralizers of Finite Subgroups of Out(Fn) Finite?
- Computing Angles in Hyperbolic Groups
- On Effective Decidability of the Homeomorphism Problem for Non-compact Surfaces
- Some Presentations of the Trivial Group
- A Language Theoretic Analysis of Combings.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8218-7840-9
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