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On Groups of PL-homeomorphisms of the Real Line
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Robert Bieri, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankurt am Main, Germany and Ralph Strebel, Université de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Publication: Mathematical Surveys and Monographs
Publication Year:
2016; Volume 215
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-2901-0 (print); 978-1-4704-3599-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/surv/215
MathSciNet review: MR3560537
MSC: Primary 20F38; Secondary 20E32, 20F05, 20F28
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Chapters
- Introduction
- Chapter A. Construction of finitary PL-homeomorphisms
- Chapter B. Generating sets
- Chapter C. The subgroup of bounded homeomorphisms $B$
- Chapter D. Presentations
- Chapter E. Isomorphisms and automorphism groups
- Notes
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