Geometric characterization of flat groups of automorphisms

Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Baumgartner, Udo ^a   Schlichting, Günter ^b   Willis, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automorphism group; Flat; Quasi isometry; Rank; Tidy subgroup; Totally disconnected locally compact group

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649115317     PISSN: 16617207     EISSN: 16617215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4171/ggd/72     Document Type: Article

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