Abstract length functions in groups

DOI10.1017/S0305004100053093zbMATH Open0351.20024MaRDI QIDQ4120742FDOQ4120742

Authors: Ian Chiswell 

Publication date: 1976

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) General structure theorems for groups (20E34)

Cites Work

• The Subgroups of a Free Product of Two Groups with an Amalgamated Subgroup
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• Real Length Functions in Groups
• Length Functions in Groups.

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• Subgroup theorem for valuated groups and the CSA property.
• Minimal length functions on groups
• Notes on quadratic sequences
• Dehn fillings and elementary splittings
• Towards a classification of transitive group actions on finite metric spaces
• Decomposition theorems for group pairs
• Topologie de Gromov équivariante, structures hyperboliques et arbres réels. (Equivariant Gromov topology, hyperbolic structures, and \({\mathbb{R}}\)-trees)
• Limit groups over partially commutative groups and group actions on real cubings
• Double cosets in free groups.
• Notions of Independence Related to the Free Group
• Infinite groups
• A Green's function for non-homogeneous random walks on free products
• The Gromov topology on \({\mathbb{R}}\)-trees
• ACTIONS, LENGTH FUNCTIONS, AND NON-ARCHIMEDEAN WORDS
• Holonomy theorem for finite semigroups
• Higgs bundles, harmonic maps and pleated surfaces
• Groups with free regular length functions in \(\mathbb Z^n\).
• Invariants and examples of group actions on trees and length functions
• Affine actions on non-Archimedean trees.
• Construction of an infinitely generated group that is not a free product of surface groups and abelian groups, but which acts freely on an ℝ-tree
• R-Trees and Normalization of Pseudogroups
• Length functions arising from a group action on an IR-tree
• Further results on monoids acting on trees.
• Trees, tight extensions of metric spaces, and the cohomological dimension of certain groups: A note on combinatorial properties of metric spaces

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