Kazhdan constants of group extensions

International Journal of Algebra and Computation

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 671-688

  Hadad, Uzy ^a,b,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

group extensions; Kazhdan constants; Kazhdan property (T); unitary representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957673092     PISSN: 02181967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218196710005832     Document Type: Article

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