Semihyperbolic Groups

DOI10.1112/plms/s3-70.1.56zbMath0823.20035MaRDI QIDQ4837809

Martin R. Bridson, Juan M. Alonso

Publication date: 15 October 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1112/plms/s3-70.1.56

zbMATH Keywords

isoperimetric inequality; finitely generated groups; polycyclic groups; word metrics; flat torus theorem; discrete group of isometries; word-hyperbolic groups; solvable conjugacy problem; biautomatic groups; semihyperbolicity; semihyperbolic metric spaces; space of nonpositive curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20F65: Geometric group theory

57M07: Topological methods in group theory

53C23: Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces

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

20F34: Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects)

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