The Chabauty space of closed subgroups of the three-dimensional Heisenberg group

Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-48

  Bridson, Martin R ^a   La Harpe, Pierre De ^b   Kleptsyn, Victor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Affine group; Chabauty topology; Heisenberg group; Space of closed subgroups; Space of lattices

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349767970     PISSN: 00308730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/pjm.2009.240.1     Document Type: Article

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