Asymptotic cones of finitely presented groups

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 142-173

  Kramer, Linus ^a   Shelah, Saharon ^b   Tent, Katrin ^a   Thomas, Simon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affine buildings; Asymptotic cone; Finitely presented groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844255300     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2004.04.012     Document Type: Article

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