Uniform non-amenability

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 499-522

  Arzhantseva, G N ^a   Burillo, J ^b   Lustig, Martin ^c   Reeves, L ^c   Short, Hamish ^c   Ventura, Enric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Amenability; Cayley graph; F lner sets

Indexed keywords

EID: 27244438900     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2004.10.013     Document Type: Article

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