Curvature, complexity, and mapping tori of free-group automorphisms
Martin R. Bridson
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I shall begin with a brief survey of the intimate relationships between various manifestations of non-positive curvature and
decision problems in group theory and topology.
I shall then explain recent work exploring the outer limits of these relationships, with special emphasis on the mapping tori of free-group automorphisms.
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