Groups : Topological, Combinatorial and Arithmetic Aspects

Survey and research articles from the 1999 Bielefeld conference on topological, combinatorial and arithmetic aspects of (infinite) groups. All contributions are written in a relaxed and attractive style, accessible to specialists and also post-graduate students, who will find inspiration for a number of research projects at various levels of difficulty.

In 1999 a number of eminent mathematicians were invited to Bielefeld to present lectures at a conference on topological, combinatorial and arithmetic aspects of (infinite) groups. The present volume consists of survey and research articles invited from participants in this conference. Topics covered include topological finiteness properties of groups, Kac-Moody groups, the theory of Euler characteristics, the connection between groups, formal languages and automata, the Magnus-Nielsen method for one-relator groups, atomic and just infinite groups, topology in permutation groups, probabilistic group theory, the theory of subgroup growth, hyperbolic lattices in dimension three, generalised triangle groups and reduction theory. All contributions are written in a relaxed and attractive style, accessible not only to specialists, but also to good graduate and post-graduate students, who will find inspiration for a number of basic research projects at various levels of technical difficulty.