Group actions and Helly's theorem

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 222, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1574-1588

  Farb, Benson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

CAT (0); Helly's theorem; SLn

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849088725     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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