Amenable groups and Hadamard spaces with a totally disconnected isometry group

Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 437-455

  Caprace, Pierre Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amenable group; CAT(O) space; Locally finite group; Totally disconnected group

Indexed keywords

EID: 67849097262     PISSN: 00102571     EISSN: 14208946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4171/CMH/168     Document Type: Article

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