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Geometric methods in group theory : AMS Special Session Geometric Group Theory, October 5-6, 2002, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts : special session at the First Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Real Sociedad Matem�atica Espa�nola, June 18-21, 2003, Seville, Spain / [electronic resource] Jos�e Burillo ... [et al.], editors. - Providence, RI : American Mathematical Society, 2005. - 1 online resource (vii, 230 p.) - Contemporary mathematics, v. 372 0271-4132 (print); 1098-3627 (online); . - Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; v. 372. .

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Properly 3-realizable groups: a survey / Free actions on $\Bbb Z^n$-trees: a survey / Characterizing rigid simplicial actions on trees / Improving an algorithm to solve multiple simultaneous conjugacy problems in braid groups / On singular Artin monoids / A surface groups analogue of a theorem of Magnus / Shift automorphisms of finite order / Counting primitive elements of a free group / A rank formula for amalgamated products with finite amalgam / A simple proof of a theorem of Karrass and Solitar / Distortion functions and the membership problem for submonoids of groups and monoids / Thompson's group $F$ is maximally nonconvex / Seesaw words in Thompson's group $F$ / Piecewise-projective representation of Thompson's group $T$ / Bijective quasi-isometries of amenable groups / On definitions of relatively hyperbolic groups / Embedding wreath-like products in finitely presented groups. I / Metric properties of the lamplighter group as an automata group / An example of non-contracting weakly branch automaton group / Travelling salesman problem in groups / M. C�ardenas and F. F. Lasheras -- A. Martino and S. O'Rourke -- Gilbert Levitt -- Juan Gonz�alez-Meneses -- Eddy Godelle and Luis Paris -- Oleg Bogopolski -- Venu Addepalli and Edward C. Turner -- Vladimir Shpilrain -- Richard Weidmann -- Delaram Kahrobaei -- Stuart W. Margolis, John Meakin and Zoran �Suni�k -- James Belk and Kai-Uwe Bux -- Sean Cleary and Jennifer Taback -- Xavier Martin -- Tullia Dymarz -- Inna Bumagin -- Gilbert Baumslag -- Sean Cleary and Jennifer Taback -- Fran�cois Dahmani -- Azer Akhmedov -- http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06869 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06870 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06871 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06872 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06873 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06874 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06875 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06876 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06877 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06878 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06879 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06880 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06881 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06882 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06883 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06884 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06885 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06886 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06887 http://www.ams.org/conm/372/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/372/06888

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Electronic reproduction.
Providence, Rhode Island :
American Mathematical Society.
2012


Mode of access : World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780821879627 (online)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Group theory--Congresses.
Finite groups--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: QA174 / .A67 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 512/.2