The topology of discrete groups

DOI10.1016/0022-4049(80)90040-7zbMath0419.20026MaRDI QIDQ1132178

Gilbert Baumslag, Alex Heller, Eldon Dyer

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-4049(80)90040-7

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental group; finitely generated subgroups; algebraically closed group; homotopy groups; integral homology groups; generalized free product; geometrically finite group; acyclic group; centres of acyclic groups; embedding groups into acyclic groups; finite, connected, simplicial complexes; geometrically finite dimension; Hnn-extension; mitosis of a group; mitotic group; pointed connected Cw-complex; subgroup of an acyclic, geometrically finite group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20E07: Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth

20J05: Homological methods in group theory

20F38: Other groups related to topology or analysis

55P99: Homotopy theory

20E06: Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations

20F34: Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects)

20E25: Local properties of groups

20J15: Category of groups

55N25: Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology

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