Publication:3139887

zbMath0797.20001MaRDI QIDQ3139887

Gilbert Baumslag

Publication date: 25 October 1993

zbMATH Keywords

tree; decision problems; generalized free products; finitely generated groups; HNN extensions; hyperbolic groups; varieties of groups; geometric representation; automatic groups; generators and relations; recursive presentability; word problems; algorithmic undecidability; subgroup theorems; \(SL(2,\mathbb{C})\); small-cancellation theory; finitely presented indicable group; Higman's embedding theorem; weak Burnside problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20E07: Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth

20F50: Periodic groups; locally finite groups

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

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

20F10: Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects)

20E08: Groups acting on trees

20F06: Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams

20-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to group theory

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