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Geometric and computational perspectives on infinite groups : proceedings of a joint DIMACS/Geometry Center workshop, January 3-14 and March 17-20, 1994

Title
Geometric and computational perspectives on infinite groups : proceedings of a joint DIMACS/Geometry Center workshop, January 3-14 and March 17-20, 1994 / Gilbert Baumslag [and others], editors.
Publication
Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors
Baumslag, Gilbert.
Description
xvi, 212 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.
Series Statement
DIMACS series in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, 1052-1798 ; v. 25
Uniform Title
DIMACS series in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science ; v. 25.
Subject
Geometric group theory > Congresses
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The Geometry Center Workshop -- The DIMACS Workshop -- Lower bounds of isoperimetric functions for nilpotent groups / Jose Burillo -- A filtration of the chain complex of a rewriting system / Lisa J. Carbone -- Formal languages and infinite groups / Robert H. Gilman -- Groups of deficiency zero / George Havas, M. F. Newman and E. A. O'Brien -- The Warwick automatic groups software / Derek F. Holt -- Some remarks on one-relator free products with amalgamation / Arye Juhasz -- Detecting quasiconvexity: Algorithmic aspects / Ilya Kapovich -- A user's guide to the mapping class group: Once punctured surfaces / Lee Mosher -- Computing nilpotent quotients of finitely presented groups / Werner Nickel -- An algorithm detecting hyperbolicity / P. Papasoglu -- On the finite subgroups of a context-free group / Geraud Senizergues.
ISBN
0821804499 (alk. paper)
LCCN
95043529
OCLC
ocm33334963
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries