Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The group ℛF(G)
- 3 The ℝ-tree XG associated with ℛF(G)
- 4 Free ℝ-tree actions and universality
- 5 Exponent sums
- 6 Functoriality
- 7 Conjugacy of hyperbolic elements
- 8 The centralisers of hyperbolic elements
- 9 Test functions: basic theory and first applications
- 10 Test functions: existence theorem and further applications
- 11 A generalisation to groupoids
- Appendix A The basics of Λ-trees
- Appendix B Some open problems
- References
- Index
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The group ℛF(G)
- 3 The ℝ-tree XG associated with ℛF(G)
- 4 Free ℝ-tree actions and universality
- 5 Exponent sums
- 6 Functoriality
- 7 Conjugacy of hyperbolic elements
- 8 The centralisers of hyperbolic elements
- 9 Test functions: basic theory and first applications
- 10 Test functions: existence theorem and further applications
- 11 A generalisation to groupoids
- Appendix A The basics of Λ-trees
- Appendix B Some open problems
- References
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012