Features a comprehensive introduction to the connections between formal language theory and group theoryIncludes Thurston's compactification of Teichmüller space following the point of view of geodesic currents on surfaces
Presents specialized research topics in a friendlier way than in a research article

Autorentext

Javier Aramayona is a Professor at the Departamento de Matemáticas of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Volker Diekert is the Head of the Theoretical Computer Science Group at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Christopher J. Leininger is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Pedro V. Silva is a full Professor of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Porto, Portugal. Armin Weiß is a Research Assistant in the Theoretical Computer Science Group at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Inhalt
Foreword.- Fixed Points of Endomorphisms.- Context-Free Groups and Bass-Serre Theory.- Hyperbolic Structures on Surfaces and Geodesic Currents.