Growth of maps, distortion in groups and symplectic geometry

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 655-686

  Polterovich, Leonid ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 0036027234     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00222-002-0251-x     Document Type: Article

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