Groups acting on tree-graded spaces and splittings of relatively hyperbolic groups

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 217, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1313-1367

  Druţu, Cornelia ^a   Sapir, Mark V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LILLE 1   (France)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action of a group; Asymptotic cone; Homomorphisms; Outer automorphisms; Real tree; Relatively hyperbolic group; Tree graded space

Indexed keywords

EID: 37549043977     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2007.08.012     Document Type: Article

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