A strong Schottky Lemma for nonpositively curved singular spaces

Geometriae Dedicata

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 235-243

  Alperin, Roger C ^a   Farb, Benson ^b   Noskov, Guennadi A ^c  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Building; Burau representation; CAT(0)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036341128     PISSN: 00465755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019650112871     Document Type: Article

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