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Summer School in Group Theory in Banff, 1996
 
Edited by: Olga Kharlampovich McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
A co-publication of the AMS and Centre de Recherches Mathématiques
Summer School in Group Theory in Banff, 1996
Softcover ISBN:  978-0-8218-0948-8
Product Code:  CRMP/17
List Price: $65.00
MAA Member Price: $58.50
AMS Member Price: $52.00
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-3931-6
Product Code:  CRMP/17.E
List Price: $60.00
MAA Member Price: $54.00
AMS Member Price: $48.00
Softcover ISBN:  978-0-8218-0948-8
eBook: ISBN:  978-1-4704-3931-6
Product Code:  CRMP/17.B
List Price: $125.00 $95.00
MAA Member Price: $112.50 $85.50
AMS Member Price: $100.00 $76.00
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Summer School in Group Theory in Banff, 1996
Edited by: Olga Kharlampovich McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
A co-publication of the AMS and Centre de Recherches Mathématiques
Softcover ISBN:  978-0-8218-0948-8
Product Code:  CRMP/17
List Price: $65.00
MAA Member Price: $58.50
AMS Member Price: $52.00
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-3931-6
Product Code:  CRMP/17.E
List Price: $60.00
MAA Member Price: $54.00
AMS Member Price: $48.00
Softcover ISBN:  978-0-8218-0948-8
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-3931-6
Product Code:  CRMP/17.B
List Price: $125.00 $95.00
MAA Member Price: $112.50 $85.50
AMS Member Price: $100.00 $76.00
  • Book Details
     
     
    CRM Proceedings & Lecture Notes
    Volume: 171999; 145 pp
    MSC: Primary 20

    The third annual CRM Summer School took place in Banff (Alberta, Canada) and was aimed toward advanced students and recent PhDs. This volume presents surveys from the group theory part of the theme year and examines different approaches to the topic: a geometric approach, an approach using methods from logic, and an approach with roots in the Bass-Serre theory of groups acting on trees.

    The work offers a concise introduction to current directions of research in combinatorial group theory. Surveys in the text are by leading researchers in the field who are experienced expositors. The text is suitable for use in a graduate course in geometric and combinatorial group theory.

    Titles in this series are co-published with the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques.

    Readership

    Graduate students and research mathematicians working in geometric and combinatorial group theory.

  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Chapters
    • Some open problems
    • Length functions and $\Lambda $-trees
    • Introduction to hyperbolic and automatic groups
    • Description of fully residually free groups and irreducible affine varieties over a free group
    • Homological methods in group theory
    • Pro-$p$ groups
    • Identities of representations of finite groups
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Volume: 171999; 145 pp
MSC: Primary 20

The third annual CRM Summer School took place in Banff (Alberta, Canada) and was aimed toward advanced students and recent PhDs. This volume presents surveys from the group theory part of the theme year and examines different approaches to the topic: a geometric approach, an approach using methods from logic, and an approach with roots in the Bass-Serre theory of groups acting on trees.

The work offers a concise introduction to current directions of research in combinatorial group theory. Surveys in the text are by leading researchers in the field who are experienced expositors. The text is suitable for use in a graduate course in geometric and combinatorial group theory.

Titles in this series are co-published with the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques.

Readership

Graduate students and research mathematicians working in geometric and combinatorial group theory.

  • Chapters
  • Some open problems
  • Length functions and $\Lambda $-trees
  • Introduction to hyperbolic and automatic groups
  • Description of fully residually free groups and irreducible affine varieties over a free group
  • Homological methods in group theory
  • Pro-$p$ groups
  • Identities of representations of finite groups
Review Copy – for publishers of book reviews
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