Characterizing hyperbolic spaces and real trees

Geometriae Dedicata

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 139-149

  Frigerio, Roberto ^a   Sisto, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asymptotic cone; Detour; Gromov hyperbolic; Real tree; Rips condition

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349491079     PISSN: 00465755     EISSN: 15729168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10711-009-9363-4     Document Type: Article

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