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A Universal Construction for Groups Acting Freely on Real Trees

Ian Chiswell and thomas Müller
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 
2012
Number of Pages: 
285
Format: 
Hardcover
Series: 
Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics 195
Price: 
85.00
ISBN: 
9781107024816
Category: 
Monograph
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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 centralizers of hyperbolic elements
9. Test functions: basic theory and first applications
10. Test functions: existence theorem and further applications
11. A generalization to groupoids
Appendix A. The basics of Λ-trees
Appendix B. Some open problems
References
Index.