Group Cohomology, Harmonic Functions and the First L2-Betti Number

Potential Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 313-326

  Bekka, Mohammed E B ^a   Valette, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ends; Group cohomology; Harmonic functions; L2 cohomology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031519820     PISSN: 09262601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017974406074     Document Type: Article

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