Survey on geometric group theory

zbMath1197.20036arXiv0806.3771MaRDI QIDQ3601977

Wolfgang Lück

Publication date: 12 February 2009

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3771

zbMATH Keywords

surveyclassifying spacesbibliographyrigidityfinitely generated groupsnon-positive curvatureCayley graphshyperbolic groupsquasi-isometriesword metricproblemsisomorphism conjectures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to group theory (20-02)

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