Download or read book Topological and Asymptotic Aspects of Group Theory written by R. I. Grigorchuk and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume are based on the talks given at two special sessions at the AMS Sectional meetings held in 2004. The articles cover various topological and asymptotic aspects of group theory, such as hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic groups, asymptotic cones, Thompson's group, Nielsen fixed point theory, homology, groups acting on trees, groups generated by finite automata, iterated monodromy groups, random walks on finitely generated groups, heat kernels, and currents on free groups.