A Universal Construction for Groups Acting Freely on Real Trees: (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics)
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Ian Chiswell (Author) Thomas Muller (Author)
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The theory of R-trees is a well-established and important area of geometric group theory and in this book the authors introduce a construction that provides a new perspective on group actions on R-trees. They construct a group RF(G), equipped with an action on an R-tree, whose elements are certain functions from a compact real interval to the group G. They also study the structure of RF(G), including a detailed description of centralizers of elements and an investigation of its subgroups and quotients. Any group acting freely on an R-tree embeds in RF(G) for some choice of G. Much remains to be done to understand RF(G), and the extensive list of open problems included in an appendix could potentially lead to new methods for investigating group actions on R-trees, particularly free actions. This book will interest all geometric group theorists and model theorists whose research involves R-trees. Worked examples or Exercises; 4 Line drawings, unspecified
About the Author
Ian Chiswell is Emeritus Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London. His main area of research is geometric group theory, especially the theory of -trees. Other interests have included cohomology of groups and ordered groups. Thomas Muller is Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London. His main research interests are in geometric, combinatorial and asymptotic group theory, in algebraic combinatorics, number theory and (mostly complex) analysis.
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- Contributor: Ian Chiswell
- Imprint: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN13: 9781107024816
- Number of Pages: 297
- Packaged Dimensions: 158x235x20mm
- Packaged Weight: 560
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Release Date: 2012-10-18
- Series: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Ian Chiswell is Emeritus Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London. His main area of research is geometric group theory, especially the theory of -trees. Other interests have included cohomology of groups and ordered groups. Thomas Muller is Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London. His main research interests are in geometric, combinatorial and asymptotic group theory, in algebraic combinatorics, number theory and (mostly complex) analysis.
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