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In the previous chapter, we took the first step from groups to geometry by considering Cayley graphs. In the present chapter, we consider another geometric aspect of groups by looking at group actions, which can be viewed as a generalisation of seeing groups as symmetry groups.We start by recalling some basic concepts about group actions (Chapter 4.1).
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Löh, C. (2017). Group actions. In: Geometric Group Theory. Universitext. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72254-2_4
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