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Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory
May 5-10, 2006
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA

Organizers
Goulnara Arzhantseva, Mike Mihalik, Denis Osin, Mark Sapir, Efim Zelmanov

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Strongly bounded groups
by
Yves de Cornulier
Penn State Univ.

A group is strongly bounded if it has no isometric action on any metric space with unbounded orbits. The notion has only emerged since a recent paper by G. Bergman, although there are plenty of examples, including infinite symmetric groups and infinite powers of finite simple groups, endowed with the discrete topology.

Date received: March 21, 2006

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