The geometry of groups satisfying weak almost-convexity or weak geodesic-combability conditions

DOI10.1515/jgth.2002.019zbMath1046.20030MaRDI QIDQ4779672

Timothy R. Riley

Publication date: 16 December 2002

Published in: Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/jgth.2002.019

zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graphs; word problem; finitely presented groups; Dehn functions; combable groups; geodesic combings; almost-convex groups; filling length functions; minimal isodiametric functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20F65: Geometric group theory

57M07: Topological methods in group theory

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

20F67: Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups

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

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Tame combing and almost convexity conditions.

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