Amenable groups, isoperimetric profiles and random walks

Chapters in this book

1. I-XII I
2. The topology of polynomial varieties 1
3. Finiteness length and connectivity length for groups 9
4. Convergence groups and configuration spaces 23
5. Groups, semigroups and finite presentations 55
6. Conformal modulus: the graph paper invariant or the conformal shape of an algorithm 71
7. Injectivity of the positive monoid for some infinite type Artin groups 103
8. Injective maps between Artin groups 119
9. The intersection of flat subsets of a braid group 139
10. Reconstructing simple group actions 147
11. Intersection multiplicities and reflection subquotients of unitary reflection groups I 181
12. Some examples of hyperbolic groups 195
13. Embedding free amalgams of discrete groups in non-discrete topological groups 203
14. Indiscrete representations, laminations, and tilings 225
15. Automatic structures on central extensions 261
16. Distortion functions for subgroups 281
17. Amenable groups, isoperimetric profiles and random walks 293
18. Whitehead graphs on handlebodies 317
19. List of Contributors 331
20. List of Participants 333