Nielsen Methods and Groups Acting on Hyperbolic Spaces

Geometriae Dedicata

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 95-121

  Kapovich, Ilya ^a   Weidmann, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

trees; Free groups; Group actions; Hyperbolic spaces; Nielsen methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038202275     PISSN: 00465755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024064029186     Document Type: Article

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