Groups acting on finite dimensional spaces with finite stabilizers

Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 122-136

  Kropholler, Peter H ^a   Mislin, Guido ^b  

^a Mathematical Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Classifying space; Cohomological dimension; Group; Join; Poset

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001708954     PISSN: 00102571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000140050048     Document Type: Article

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