Group Theory from a Geometrical Viewpoint

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Preface
• I. HYPERBOLIC GROUPS
  • Notes on word hyperbolic groups
  • Notes on Gromov's hyperbolicity criterion for path-metric spaces
  • Quasiconvexity and a theorem of Howson's
  • Sous-groupes à deux générateurs des groups hyperboliques
• II. COXETER GROUPS AND BUILDINGS
  • An invitation to Coxeter groups
  • Five lectures on buildings
  • The group of values of a W-distance is a Coxeter group
  • Growth series of Coxeter groups
• III. NON–POSITIVELY CURVED POLYHEDRA
  • Constructions of hyperbolic groups via hyperbolization of polyhedra
  • Geodesics and curvature in metric simplicial complexes
  • Hyperbolizations
  • Non-positively curved triangles of groups
  • Complexes of groups and orbihedra
• IV. ACTIONS ON TREES
  • Dendrology and its applications
  • Cocycles bornés et actions de groupes sur les arbres réels
  • A quick introduction to Burnside's problem
• V. MISCELLANEOUS
  • Projective aspects of the Higman-Thompson group
  • Hyperbolic geometry and the subgroups of the modular group
  • Identities among relations of group presentations
  • Closures of totally geodesic immersions in manifolds of constant negative curvature
• List of Contributors