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Topological and asymptotic aspects of group theory : AMS Special Session Probabilitistic and Asymptotic aspects of Group Theory, March 26-27, 2004, Athens, Ohio, AMS Special Session and Topological Aspects of Group Theory, October 16-17, 2004, Nashville, Tennessee / Rostislav Grigorchuk [and three others], editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- AMS Special Session Probabilistic and Asymptotic Aspects of Group Theory, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- AMS Special Session Probabilistic and Asymptotic Aspects of Group Theory (2004 : Athens, Ohio), issuing body.
- AMS Special Session Topological Aspects of Group Theory (2004 : Nashville, Tenn.), issuing body.
- Series:
- Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; 394.
- Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; 394
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group theory--Congresses.
- Group theory.
- Algebraic topology--Congresses.
- Algebraic topology.
- Topological manifolds--Congresses.
- Topological manifolds.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""A dichotomy for finitely generated subgroups of word hyperbolic groups""; ""Some solvable automaton groups""; ""Quotient tests and random walks in computational group theory""; ""1. Decision problems and quotient tests""; ""2. Quotient test for the identity problem: non-amenable quotient group""; ""3. Quotient test for the identity problem: amenable quotient groups""; ""4. The role of the mixing time""; ""5. Quotient tests for the word problem""; ""6. Quotient tests for the conjugacy problem""; ""References""; ""The homology of Richard Thompson's group F""
- ""Groups with non-simply connected asymptotic cones""""Relative Dehn functions of amalgamated products and HNN-extensions""; ""Endomorphisms of the finitary group of isometries of the binary tree""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8218-7984-7
- 0-8218-3756-7
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