Group actions on trees furnish a unified geometric way of recasting the chapter of combinatorial group theory dealing with free groups, amalgams, and HNN extensions. Some of the principal examples arise from rank one simple Lie groups over a non-archimidean local field acting on their Bruhat-Tits trees. In particular this leads to a powerful method for studying lattices in such Lie groups.
- ISBN10 1461220998
- ISBN13 9781461220992
- Publish Date 1 November 2000 (first published August 1999)
- Publish Status Withdrawn
- Out of Print 18 October 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Springer My Copy UK
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 252
- Language English