Ideal bicombings for hyperbolic groups and applications

Topology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1319-1344

  Mineyev, Igor ^a   Monod, Nicolas ^b   Shalom, Yehuda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bounded cohomology; Hyperbolic groups; Hyperbolic spaces; Ideal bicombing; Superrigidity

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344695903     PISSN: 00409383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.top.2004.01.008     Document Type: Article

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