Abstract & Pure

Learn Geometric Group Theory

Groups as metric spaces: the word metric, quasi-isometry, growth, hyperbolicity, ends, amenability, and the rigidity theorems that recover algebra from coarse geometry.

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What you'll learn

30 lessons in Geometric Group Theory

The word metricQuasi-isometryThe Svarc-Milnor lemmaGrowth functionsPolynomial growth and Gromov's theoremIntermediate growthHyperbolic groupsDehn functionsThe word and conjugacy problemsDehn's algorithm and small cancellationEnds of groupsAmenability and Folner sequencesThe boundary at infinityCAT(0) spaces and cube complexesGroups acting on treesOut(F_n) and outer spaceThe Tits alternative and property (T)Lattices and rigidityGrowth seriesBaumslag-Solitar groupsThe Burnside problemThompson's groupsRight-angled Artin groupsBraid groupsAutomatic groupsBounded cohomology and quasimorphismsRelative and acylindrical hyperbolicityAsymptotic dimensionRandom groupsThe space of marked groups
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