Transition operators on co-compact G-spaces

Revista Matematica Iberoamericana

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 747-799

  Saloff Coste, Laurent ^a   Woess, Wolfgang ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amenability; Euclidean simplicial complex; Factor space; G space; Geodesic metric space; Invariant transition operator; Isometries; Laplacian; Proper action; Riemannian manifold; Unimodularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147174297     PISSN: 02132230     EISSN: 22350616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4171/RMI/473     Document Type: Article

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