Van Kampen's embedding obstruction for discrete groups

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 219-235

  Bestvina, Mladen ^a   Kapovich, Michael ^a   Kleiner, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0035981372     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00222-002-0246-7     Document Type: Article

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