Groups, languages, and automata / Derek F. Holt, University of Warwick, Sarah Rees, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Claas E. R©œver, National University of Ireland, Galway
Material type: TextSeries: London Mathematical Society student texts ; 88Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017Description: xi, 294 pages : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1107152356
- 131660652X
- 9781107152359
- 9781316606520
- 512/.2 23
- QA174.2 .H648 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Part one. Introduction. Group theory ; Formal languages and automata theory ; Introduction to the word problem -- Part two. Finite state automaata and groups. Rewriting systems ; Automatic groups ; Hyperbolic groups ; Geodesics ; -- Subgroups and coset systems ; Automata groups -- Part three. The word problem. Solubility of the word problem ; Context-free and one-counter word problems ; Context-sensitive problems ; Word problems in other language classes ; The co-word problem and the conjugacy problem.
Many connections exist between group theory and automata theory, and a wide variety of them are discussed in this text. Any necessary background material is provided, and connections are explored along a number of strands that lead to the forefront of current research in geometric group theory.
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