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Geometric and Computational Perspectives on Infinite Groups
About this Title
Gilbert Baumslag, City College (CUNY), New York, NY, David B A Epstein, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, Robert Gilman, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, Hamish B Short, Universite de Victor Hugo, Marseille, France and Charles C Sims, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Editors
Publication: DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Publication Year:
1996; Volume 25
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0449-0 (print); 978-1-4704-3983-5 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/dimacs/025
MathSciNet review: MR1364175
MSC: Primary 20F32; Secondary 20-06
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Lower bounds of isoperimetric functions for nilpotent groups
- A filtration of the chain complex of a rewriting system
- Formal languages and infinite groups
- Groups of deficiency zero
- The Warwick automatic groups software
- Some remarks on one-relator free products with amalgamation
- Detecting quasiconvexity: Algorithmic aspects
- A user’s guide to the mapping class group: Once punctured surfaces
- Computing nilpotent quotients of finitely presented groups
- An algorithm detecting hyperbolicity
- On the finite subgroups of a context-free group