Superrigidity for irreducible lattices and geometric splitting

Journal of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 781-814

  Monod, Nicolas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hadamard spaces; Lattices; Splitting; Superrigidity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749462051     PISSN: 08940347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-06-00525-X     Document Type: Article

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