TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grigorchuk,Rostislav
AU  - Mihalik,Michael
AU  - Sapir,Mark
AU  - Sunik,Zoran
TI  - Topological and Asymptotic Aspects of Group Theory
T2  - Contemporary Mathematics
SN  - 9780821879849
AV  - QA174 -- .A675 2004eb 
U1  - 512.2 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Providence
PB  - American Mathematical Society
KW  - Group theory -- Congresses
KW  - Algebraic topology -- Congresses
KW  - Topological manifolds -- Congresses
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- A dichotomy for finitely generated subgroups of word hyperbolic groups -- Some solvable automaton groups -- Quotient tests and random walks in computational group theory -- 1. Decision problems and quotient tests -- 2. Quotient test for the identity problem: non-amenable quotient group -- 3. Quotient test for the identity problem: amenable quotient groups -- 4. The role of the mixing time -- 5. Quotient tests for the word problem -- 6. Quotient tests for the conjugacy problem -- References -- The homology of Richard Thompson's group F -- On the growth of iterated monodromy groups -- On Bestvina-Mess formula -- Symmetric random walks on certain amalgamated free product groups -- Homology of tree braid groups -- Associativity and Thompson's group -- Traveller Salesman Property and Richard Thompson's group F -- On groups with periodic products of commutators -- Currents on free groups -- Heat kernels, theta identities, and zeta functions on cyclic groups -- The Nielsen fixed point structure for homotopy idempotents on surfaces -- Thompson's group F is not Kähler -- Groups with non-simply connected asymptotic cones -- Relative Dehn functions of amalgamated products and HNN-extensions -- Endomorphisms of the finitary group of isometries of the binary tree
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