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Tameness and the Geodesic Cores of Subgroups.
Geometry/Topology| Speaker: | Rita Gitik, Michigan |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Wed, Oct 6 1999, 4:10PM |
We give a new definition of a tame subgroup, discuss various examples, and give a very short proof of the fact that quasiconvex subgroups of negatively curved groups are tame. The proof is related to the Dehn algorithm.