The Baum-Connes conjecture for hyperbolic groups

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 97-122

  Mineyev, Igor ^a   Yu, Guoliang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036988317     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002220200214     Document Type: Article

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