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An introduction to combinatorial and geometric group theory
Nicholas Touikan
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Front Matter
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Free groups and presentations
Generalized associativity
The free group.
The universal property of the free group
Generating and presenting groups
Cayley graphs
Homomorphisms and Tietze transformations
Algorithmic problems in group theory and elements of recursion theory
Solving Dehn's algorithmic problems in the class of finitely generated free groups.
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First elements of geometric group theory
Quasi isometries
Can anything be expressed by quasi isometry?
Many ended graphs
What is an end, anyway?
Appendix: Some final facts about quasi-isometry
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Diagram methods
van Kampen diagrams and the geometry of the word problem
HNN extensions and dual tracks
A pause: why are doing any of this anyway?
The combinatorial geometry and topology of van Kampen diagrams.
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Epilogue: word hyperbolic groups.
Back Matter
References
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Front Matter
1
Free groups and presentations
2
First elements of geometric group theory
3
Diagram methods
Back Matter