A Course in Formal Languages, Automata and Groups

• Main Author: Chiswell, Ian M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Series: Universitext
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Mathematical logic.; Category theory (Mathematics).; Homological algebra.; Group theory.; Algebraic topology.; Manifolds (Mathematics).; Complex manifolds.; Group Theory and Generalizations.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Algebraic Topology.; Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology).; Category Theory, Homological Algebra.

Based on the author’s lecture notes for an MSc course, this text combines formal language and automata theory and group theory, a thriving research area that has developed extensively over the last twenty-five years. The aim of the first three chapters is to give a rigorous proof that various notion...