Combinatorial and geometric group theory
Subtitle: Dortmund and Ottawa-Montreal Conferences
By: Oleg Bogopolski ... [et al.].
Series: Trends in mathematics; Trends in mathematics
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basel, Switzerland ; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9783764399108
Subjects: Combinatorial group theory; Geometric group theory; Congresses
Other titles: Geometric group theory, Dortmund and Carleton Conferences
Notes: Selected papers from the conferences: "Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory with Applications" (GAGTA), held Aug. 27-31, 2007 at the University of Dortmund; "Fields Workshop in Asymptotic Group Theory and Cryptography," held Dec. 14-16, 2007 at Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada; "Workshop on Actions on Trees, Non-Archimedian Words, and Asymptotic Cones," held Dec. 17-21, 2007 at Saint Sauveur, Montreal.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Subgroups of small index in aut(fn) and kazhdan's property (t)  -- O. Bogopolski / -- R. Vikentiev; title: Dynamics of free group automorphisms  -- P. Brinkmann; title: Geodesic rewriting systems and pregroups  -- V. Diekert / -- A.J. Duncan / -- A.G. Myasnikov; title: Regular sets and counting in free groups  -- E. Frenkel / -- A.G. Myasnikov / -- V.N. Remeslennikov; title: Twisted conjugacy for virtually cyclic groups and crystallographic groups  -- D. Goncalves / -- P. Wong; title: Solving random equations in Garside groups using length functions  -- M. Hock / -- B. Tsaban; title: An application of word combinatorics to decision problems in group theory  -- A. Juhasz; title: Equations and fully residually free groups  -- O. Kharlampovich / -- A. G. Myasnikov; title: The fn-action on the product of the two limit trees for an iwip automorphism  -- M. Lustig; title: Mather invariants in groups of piecewise-linear homeomorphisms  -- F. Matucci; title: Algebraic geometry over the additive monoid of natural numbers: systems of coefficient free equations  -- P.V. Morar / -- A.N. Shevlyakov; title: Some graphs related to Thompson's group f  -- D. Svachuk; title: Generating typles of virtually free groups  -- R. Weidmann; title: Limits of Thompson's group f -- R. Zarzycki .