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Combinatorial Group Theory 2 - NMAG432
Title: Kombinatorická teorie grup 2
Guaranteed by: Department of Algebra (32-KA)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2013 to 2017
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Pavel Růžička, Ph.D.
Class: M Mgr. MSTR
M Mgr. MSTR > Povinně volitelné
Classification: Mathematics > Algebra
Co-requisite : NMAG431
Incompatibility : NALG033
Interchangeability : NALG033
Is interchangeable with: NALG033
Annotation -
Last update: T_KA (09.05.2013)
Winter term: Subgroups of free groups (Nielsen's and Reidemaister's method), Tietze transformations, HNN extensions, free products with an amalgamated subgroup, geometrical methods, Cayley complexes. Spring term: Other selected topics in elementary combinatorical group theory.
Literature -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Pavel Růžička, Ph.D. (10.10.2017)

R. Lyndon a P. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer-Verlag, 1977.

W. Magnus, A. Karrass, D. Solitar, Combinatorial Group Theory, Wiley, 1966.

J. J. Rotman, An Introduction to The Theory of Groups, Springer-Verlag, Druhé vydání 1999.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Žemlička, Ph.D. (06.09.2013)

According to an interest, some of the following topics will be tought.

1. Higman's embedding theorem.

2. Small cancellation theory.

3. Braid group, the word problem, factors, connections to authomorphisms of free groups.

4. Groups acting on trees.

5. Hyperbolic groups.

6. Tessellations and Fuchsian complexes.

7. Solvability of the word problem for groups with one defining relation.

8. Bipolar structures.

 
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