Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, Edinburgh 1993 [Paperback]

Authoritative collection of surveys and papers that will be indispensable to all research workers in the area.Representing the current state of knowledge in the field, the contributed articles to the workshop, all refereed, cover a wide range of topics in combinatorial and geometric group theory. This volume of selected articles will be indispensable to interested researchers.Representing the current state of knowledge in the field, the contributed articles to the workshop, all refereed, cover a wide range of topics in combinatorial and geometric group theory. This volume of selected articles will be indispensable to interested researchers.The papers in this book represent the current state of knowledge in group theory. It includes articles of current interest written by such scholars as S.M. Gersten, R.I. Grigorchuk, P.H. Kropholler, A. Lubotsky, A.A. Razborov and E. Zelmanov. The contributed articles, all refereed, cover a wide range of topics in combinatorial and geometric group theory. The volume will be indispensable to all researchers in the area.On bounded languages and the geometry of nilpotent groups M. R. Bridson and R. H. Gilman; Finitely presented groups and the finite generation of exterior powers C. J. B. Brookes; Semigroup presentations and minimal ideals C. M. Campbell, E. F. Robertson, N. Ruskuc and R. M. Thomas; Generalized trees and Lambda-trees I. M. Chiswell; The mathematician who had little wisdom: a story and some mathematics D. E. Cohen; Palindromic automorphisms of free groups D. J. Collins; A freiheitssatz for certain one-relator amalgamated products B. Fine, F. Roehl and G. Rosenberger; Isoperimetric functions of groups and exotic cohomology S. M. Gersten; Some embedding theorems and undecidability questions for groups C. M. Gordon; Some results on bounded cohomology R. I. Grigorchuk; On perfect subgroups of one-relator groups J. Harlander; Weight tests and hyperbolic groups G. Huck and S. Rosebrock; A non-residually finite, relatively fl39