Nonarithmetic superrigid groups: Counterexamples to Platonov's conjecture

Annals of Mathematics

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1151-1173

  Bass, Hyman ^a,b   Lubotzky, Alexander ^c  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 0034347520     PISSN: 0003486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/121131     Document Type: Article

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