Explicit constructions of universal ℝ-trees and asymptotic geometry of hyperbolic spaces

Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 727-734

  Dyubina, Anna ^a   Polterovich, Iosif ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

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EID: 0035515944     PISSN: 00246093     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1112/S002460930100844X     Document Type: Article

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