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The Development of the Theory of Automatic Groups

In: In the Tradition of Thurston II

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  • Sarah Rees

    (Newcastle)

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We describe the development of the theory of automatic groups. We begin with a historical introduction, define the concepts of automatic, biautomatic and combable groups, derive basic properties, then explain how hyperbolic groups and the groups of compact 3-manifolds based on six of Thurston’s eight geometries can be proved automatic. We describe software developed in Warwick to compute automatic structures, as well as the development of practical algorithms that use those structures. We explain how actions of groups on spaces displaying various notions of negative curvature can be used to prove automaticity or biautomaticity, and show how these results have been used to derive these properties for groups in some infinite families (braid groups, mapping class groups, families of Artin groups, and Coxeter groups). Throughout the text we flag up open problems as well as problems that remained open for some time but have now been resolved.

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  • Sarah Rees, 2022. "The Development of the Theory of Automatic Groups," Springer Books, in: Ken’ichi Ohshika & Athanase Papadopoulos (ed.), In the Tradition of Thurston II, chapter 0, pages 449-473, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-97560-9_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97560-9_14
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