The residual finiteness of negatively curved polygons of finite groups

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 579-617

  Wise, Daniel T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0035982185     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002220200224     Document Type: Article

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