Simplicity and superrigidity of twin building lattices

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 169-221

  Caprace, Pierre Emmanuel ^a   Rémy, Bertrand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

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DOI: 10.1007/s00222-008-0162-6     Document Type: Article

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