A sampling of remarkable groups. Thompson's, self-similar, lamplighter, and Baumslag-Solitar

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-01978-5MaRDI QIDQ4962015zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marianna Bonanome, Margaret H. Dean, Judith Putnam Dean

Publication date 29 October 2018

Published in Compact Textbooks in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01978-5

zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graphamenable grouprooted treeBaumslag-Solitar groupsgrowth of groupsHopfian groupGrigorchuk's groupLamplighter group \(\mathsf{L}_{2}\)R. Thomphson's chameleon groups, self-similar group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Geometric group theory (20F65) Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Periodic groups; locally finite groups (20F50) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to group theory (20-01)

Recommendations

• Groups, graphs and trees. An introduction to the geometry of infinite groups.
• Office hours with a geometric group theorist
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2191555
• A first course in group theory
• Right-angled Artin groups

Cited in

(3)

• Some solvable automaton groups.
• Lamplighter groups
• Dead ends on wreath products and lamplighter groups

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• GAP
• AutomGrp
• FR

This page was built for publication: A sampling of remarkable groups. Thompson's, self-similar, lamplighter, and Baumslag-Solitar

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4962015)