Homological Group Theory

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Traces and Euler characteristics Hyman Bass
2. Groups of virtually finite dimension Kenneth S. Brown
3. Free abelianised extensions of finite groups K. W. Gruenberg
4. Arithmetic groups J.-P. Serre
5. Topological methods in group theory Peter Scott and Terry Wall
6. An example of a finite presented solvable group Herbert Abels
7. SL3 (Fq[t]) is not finitely presentable Helmut Behr
8. Two-dimensional Poincaré duality groups and pairs Robert Bieri and Beno Eckmann
9. Metabelian quotients of finitely presented soluble groups are finitely presented Robert Bieri and Ralph Strebel
10. Soluble groups with coherent group rings Robert Bieri and Ralph Strebel
11. Cohomological aspects of 2-graphs, II Peter J. Cameron
12. Recognizing free factors M. J. Dunwoody
13. Trees of homotopy of (n, m)-complexes Michael Dyer
14. Geometric structure of surface mapping class groups W. J. Harvey
15. Cohomology theory of aspherical groups and of small cancellation groups Johannes Huebschmann
16. Finite groups of deficiency zero D. L. Johnson and E. F. Robertson
17. Äquivalenzklassen von Gruppenbeschreibungen, Identitäten und einfacher Homotopietyp in niederen Dimensionen Wolfgang Metzler
19. Applications of Nielsen's reduction method to the solution of combinatorial problems in group theory: a survey Gerhard Rosenberger
20. Chevalley groups over polynomial rings Christophe Soulé
List of problems edited by Terry Wall.

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