Survey on geometric group theory

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Authors Wolfgang Lück

Publication date 12 February 2009

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

zbMATH Keywords

surveyCayley graphsclassifying spacesfinitely generated groupsrigiditybibliographyquasi-isometrieshyperbolic groupsproblemsisomorphism conjecturesnon-positive curvatureword metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: This article is a survey article on geometric group theory from the point of view of a non-expert who likes geometric group theory and uses it in his own research. The sections are: classical examples, basics about quasiisometry,properties and invariants of groups invariant under quasiisometry, rigidity, hyperbolic spaces and CAT(k)-spaces, the boundary of a hyperbolic space, hyperbolic groups, CAT(0)-groups, classifying spaces for proper actions, measurable group theory, some open problems.

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