Professor of Mathematics
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ 07030
(201) 216-5449, fax: (201) 216-8321
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Robert Gilman
Professor of Mathematics Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07030 (201) 216-5449, fax: (201) 216-8321 |
 Solving one-variable equations in free groups, (with Dimitri Bormotov and Alexei Myasnikov).
Abstract,
pdf (187K) |
| Formal languages and their
application to combinatorial group theory, in Groups, Languages Algorithms, Contemp. Math., 378, Amer. Math. Soc., 2005, 1--36.
Abstract,
gzipped postscript (173K) |
| Automatic quotients of free
groups, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 202 (2005), 313-324.
Introduction,
dvi (55K),
pdf (190K). |
| Word hyperbolic semigroups,
Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., 136 (2004) 513-524 (with Andrew Duncan). Introduction, postscript
(250K),
gzipped postscript (90K). |
| On
the definition of word hyperbolic groups, Math. Zeitschr. 242
(2002) 529-541.
Abstract,
dvi
(55K, no pictures),
pdf (146K). |
| Context-free
languages of sub-exponential growth, J. Computer and System Sci., J. Comput. System Sci. 64 (2002) 308-310.
(with Martin Bridson).
dvi
(11K). |
| Web
version of three talks on groups and
formal
languages. |
| On
groups whose word problem is solved by a nested stack automaton,
(with
Michael Shapiro).
Abstract,
dvi
(67K),
dvi.gz (28K),
pdf
(184K). |
| Combing
nilpotent and polycyclic groups, Int. J. of Algebra and Computation
9 (1999) 135-155 (with Derek Holt and Sarah Rees).
Abstract,
dvi (95K),
dvi.gz
(40K), pdf (246K). |
| A
shrinking lemma for indexed languages, Theoretical Computer Sci. 163
(1996) 277-281.
Abstract, dvi
(20K),
dvi.gz (10K), pdf
(115K). |
| Formal
languages and infinite groups, in Geometric and Computational
Perspectives
on Infinite Groups (Minneapolis, MN and New Brunswick, NJ, 1994),,
DIMACS Ser. Discrete Math. Theoret. Comput. Sci. 25 (1996)
27-51,
Amer. Math. Soc.
Abstract, dvi
(109K),
dvi.gz (44K), pdf
(275K). |
| Formal
language theory and the geometry of 3-manifolds, Commentarii Math.
Helv. 71 (1996) 525-555, (with Martin Bridson).
Abstract,
dvi (136K),
dvi.gz
(58K),
pdf (339K). |
| On
bounded languages and the geometry of nilpotent groups, in
Combinatorial
and Geometric Group Theory, Edinburgh 1993, London Math. Soc.
Lecture
Notes 204 (1995) 1-15, Cambr. U. P., (with Martin Bridson). Abstract,
dvi (67K), dvi.gz
(28K),
pdf (206K). |
| Automatic
Groups and String Rewriting, in Proc. of the Ecole de Printemps
d'Informatique Théorique, Font Romeu, May 17-21, 1993,
Springer
Lecture Notes in Comp. Sci. 909 (1995) 17-21.
Abstract,
dvi (37K),
dvi.gz
(16K), pdf (121K). |
| The
geometry of cycles in the Cayley diagram of a group, in The
Mathematical
Legacy of Wilhelm Magnus, Contemporary Mathematics 169
(1994)
331-340, Amer. Math. Soc.
Abstract, dvi
(42K),
dvi.gz (19K), pdf
(166K). |
| A
remark about combings of groups, Int. J. of Algebra and Computation
3 (1993) 575-581 (with Martin Bridson).
Abstract,
dvi (27K),
dvi.gz
(13K),
pdf (124K). |
