Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Part 1. Groups and Spaces
6. 1. Groups 3
7. 2. ... and Spaces 21
8. Part 2. Free Groups
9. 3. Groups Acting on Trees 45
10. 4. Free Groups and Folding 66
11. 5. The Ping-Pong Lemma 85
12. 6. Automorphisms of Free Groups 106
13. Part 3. Large Scale Geometry
14. 7. Quasi-isometries 125
15. 8. Dehn Functions 146
16. 9. Hyperbolic Groups 176
17. 10. Ends of Groups 203
18. 11. Asymptotic Dimension 219
19. 12. Growth of Groups 237
20. Part 4. Examples
21. 13. Coxeter Groups 269
22. 14. Right-Angled Artin Groups 291
23. 15. Lamplighter Groups 310
24. 16. Thompson’s Group 331
25. 17. Mapping Class Groups 358
26. 18. Braids 384
27. Bibliography 419
28. Index 437