• In group theory, a word is any written product of group elements and their inverses. For example, if x, y and z are elements of a group G, then xy, z−1xzz...
    8 KB (1,295 words) - 14:12, 13 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Geometric group theory
    the structure of a metric space, given by the so-called word metric. Geometric group theory, as a distinct area, is relatively new, and became a clearly...
    38 KB (4,308 words) - 13:31, 7 April 2024
  • word problem for groups; and the classical Burnside problem. See the book by Chandler and Magnus for a detailed history of combinatorial group theory...
    2 KB (221 words) - 07:29, 19 February 2025
  • Scientific theories are the most reliable, rigorous, and comprehensive form of scientific knowledge, in contrast to more common uses of the word "theory" that...
    38 KB (4,341 words) - 16:45, 7 April 2025
  • Word (computer architecture), a group of bits or digits/characters processed as a unit Word (formal language theory), a finite sequence of letters taken...
    4 KB (485 words) - 08:49, 17 February 2025
  • immediate precursor for small cancellation theory: this paper provided a solution of the word problem for a class of groups satisfying a complicated set of combinatorial...
    32 KB (4,247 words) - 10:34, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hyperbolic group
    In group theory, more precisely in geometric group theory, a hyperbolic group, also known as a word hyperbolic group or Gromov hyperbolic group, is a finitely...
    21 KB (2,729 words) - 12:27, 6 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Group theory
    In abstract algebra, group theory studies the algebraic structures known as groups. The concept of a group is central to abstract algebra: other well-known...
    39 KB (5,086 words) - 18:26, 11 April 2025
  • geometry, in the sense of geometric group theory: one has the Cayley graph, which has a metric, called the word metric. These are also two resulting...
    23 KB (2,473 words) - 19:22, 23 April 2025
  • of abstract algebra known as combinatorial group theory, the word problem for a finitely generated group G {\displaystyle G} is the algorithmic problem...
    29 KB (4,932 words) - 01:25, 8 April 2025
  • In group theory, a word metric on a discrete group G {\displaystyle G} is a way to measure distance between any two elements of G {\displaystyle G} ....
    10 KB (1,790 words) - 19:43, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sturmian word
    the Sturm comparison theorem.: 114  Cutting sequence Word (group theory) Morphic word Lyndon word Hordijk, A.; Laan, D. A. (2001). "Bounds for Deterministic...
    14 KB (1,939 words) - 13:42, 10 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Free group
    words (followed by reduction if necessary) as group operation. The identity is the empty word. A reduced word is called cyclically reduced if its first and...
    18 KB (2,310 words) - 17:25, 30 April 2025
  • Muted Group Theory (MGT) is a communication theory developed by cultural anthropologist Edwin Ardener and feminist scholar Shirley Ardener in 1975, that...
    63 KB (8,003 words) - 23:23, 12 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Braid group
    isotopy), and whose group operation is composition of braids (see § Introduction). Example applications of braid groups include knot theory, where any knot...
    36 KB (4,863 words) - 06:36, 26 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Thin group (combinatorial group theory)
    In mathematics, in the realm of group theory, a group is said to be thin if there is a finite upper bound on the girth of the Cayley graph induced by...
    2 KB (279 words) - 01:22, 19 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Group (mathematics)
    representation theory (that is, through the representations of the group) and of computational group theory. A theory has been developed for finite groups, which...
    102 KB (13,144 words) - 11:29, 7 May 2025
  • Phrase (redirect from Word-group)
    linguistics, these are known as phrasemes. In theories of syntax, a phrase is any group of words, or sometimes a single word, which plays a particular role within...
    10 KB (1,301 words) - 20:49, 29 April 2025
  • The Strauss–Howe generational theory, devised by William Strauss and Neil Howe, is a pseudoscientific theory which describes a theorized recurring generation...
    82 KB (9,376 words) - 02:31, 16 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of group theory topics
    mathematics and abstract algebra, group theory studies the algebraic structures known as groups. The concept of a group is central to abstract algebra:...
    10 KB (800 words) - 23:24, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Discrete mathematics
    parts of topology, e.g. knot theory. Algebraic graph theory has close links with group theory and topological graph theory has close links to topology...
    26 KB (2,771 words) - 14:34, 10 May 2025
  • prototypical example is the word problem for groups, but there are many other instances as well. Some deep results of computational theory concern the undecidablity...
    29 KB (3,204 words) - 19:26, 15 May 2025
  • each other. In geometric group theory, a finitely generated group is viewed as a metric space using the word metric. If two groups are (abstractly) commensurable...
    7 KB (865 words) - 03:16, 3 January 2025
  • Langlands program (category Representation theory of Lie groups)
    between number theory and geometry. It was proposed by Robert Langlands (1967, 1970). It seeks to relate Galois groups in algebraic number theory to automorphic...
    21 KB (2,340 words) - 23:00, 7 April 2025
  • In group theory, Matsumoto's theorem, proved by Hideya Matsumoto (1964), gives conditions for two reduced words of a Coxeter group to represent the same...
    1 KB (145 words) - 23:46, 12 August 2023
  • Word Processing in Groups is a monograph in mathematics on the theory of automatic groups, a type of abstract algebra whose operations are defined by...
    5 KB (542 words) - 19:08, 11 February 2025
  • Cohomology (redirect from Cohomology theory)
    mathematics, specifically in homology theory and algebraic topology, cohomology is a general term for a sequence of abelian groups, usually one associated with...
    44 KB (7,049 words) - 20:46, 13 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Word
    A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often...
    30 KB (3,878 words) - 04:05, 16 May 2025
  • Unipotent (redirect from Unipotent group)
    roots of unity. In the theory of algebraic groups, a group element is unipotent if it acts unipotently in a certain natural group representation. A unipotent...
    11 KB (1,826 words) - 17:10, 3 April 2025
  • Bass–Serre theory is a part of the mathematical subject of group theory that deals with analyzing the algebraic structure of groups acting by automorphisms...
    41 KB (5,901 words) - 16:04, 13 February 2025