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Book Project

The excepts below are from a partially written graduate text on the foundations of geometric group theory. The full embarrassingly incomplete text with major warts throughout can be found here

Geometric Group Theory

Title Page [pdf]
Introduction [pdf] (complete for now)
Prologue: Trefoil Knot Group [pdf] (complete)
Ch 1: Combinatorial Group Theory [pdf] (1 Oct 09: incomplete)
Ch 2: Metrics on Groups -
Ch 3: Dehn's Fundamental Problems -
Ch 4: Hyperbolic Geometry -
Ch 5: Gromov's Hyperbolic Groups -
Ch 6: Ends and Boundaries -
Ch 7: Splittings and Quasiconvexity -
Epilogue: Where to go from here -
Appendix: Basic Algebraic Topology [pdf] (1 Oct 09: incomplete)


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