Reading List
Completion requirements
- J.P. Serre, Trees (Springer Verlag 1978).
- M. Bridson, A. Haefliger, Metric Spaces of Non-positive Curvature, Part III (Springer, 1999), Chapters I.8, III.H.1, III. Γ 5.
- H. Short et al., 'Notes on word hyperbolic groups', Group Theory from a Geometrical Viewpoint, Proc. ICTP Trieste (eds E. Ghys, A. Haefliger, A. Verjovsky, World Scientific 1990), available online at: http://www.cmi.univ-mrs.fr/~hamish/
- C.F. Miller, Combinatorial Group Theory, notes: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~cfm/notes/cgt-notes.pdf
Further Reading:
- G. Baumslag, Topics in Combinatorial Group Theory (Birkhauser, 1993).
- O. Bogopolski, Introduction to Group Theory (EMS Textbooks in Mathematics, 2008).
- R. Lyndon, P. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory (Springer, 2001).
- W. Magnus, A. Karass, D. Solitar,Combinatorial Group Theory: Presentations of Groups in Terms of Generators and Relations (Dover Publications, 2004).
- P. de la Harpe, Topics in Geometric Group Theory, (University of Chicago Press, 2000).
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