{
  "id": "math/9810201",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1998-10-29T00:00:00.000Z",
  "updated": "1998-10-29T00:00:00.000Z",
  "title": "Hairdressing in groups: a survey of combings and formal languages",
  "authors": [
    "Sarah Rees"
  ],
  "comment": "17 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTMon1/paper24.abs.html",
  "journal": "Geom. Topol. Monogr. 1 (1998), 493-509",
  "categories": [
    "math.GR"
  ],
  "abstract": "A group is combable if it can be represented by a language of words satisfying a fellow traveller property; an automatic group has a synchronous combing which is a regular language. This article surveys results for combable groups, in particular in the case where the combing is a formal language.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1998-10-29T00:00:00.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "20F10",
      "20-04",
      "68Q40",
      "03D40"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "formal language",
      "article surveys results",
      "fellow traveller property",
      "regular language",
      "hairdressing"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 17,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}