A model for the universal space for proper actions of a hyperbolic group

New York Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-7

  Meintrup, David ^a   Schick, Thomas ^b  

^a BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classifying space for proper actions; Conjugacy classes of finite subgroups; Finiteness properties for universal spaces; Fixed point set; G CW complex; Gromov hyperbolic group; Rips complex; Universal space for proper actions; Word hyperbolic group

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042636510     PISSN: 10769803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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