The large scale geometry of nilpotent Lie groups

Communications in Analysis and Geometry

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 951-982

  Pauls, Scott D ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0012490852     PISSN: 10198385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CAG.2001.v9.n5.a2     Document Type: Article

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