Geometric Group Theory
A presentation of a group determines a geometry, in the sense of geometric group theory: one has the Cayley graph, which has a metric, called the word metric. These are also two resulting orders, the weak order and the Bruhat order, and corresponding Hasse diagrams. An important example is in the Coxeter groups.
Further, some properties of this graph (the coarse geometry) are intrinsic, meaning independent of choice of generators.
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