The rank of actions on R -trees

Damien Gaboriau; Gilbert Levitt

Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure (1995)

  • Volume: 28, Issue: 5, page 549-570
  • ISSN: 0012-9593

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Gaboriau, Damien, and Levitt, Gilbert. "The rank of actions on ${R}$-trees." Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure 28.5 (1995): 549-570. <http://eudml.org/doc/82394>.

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  4. Damien Gaboriau, Générateurs indépendants pour les systèmes d'isométries de dimension un
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  6. Vincent Guirardel, Dynamics of out ( F n ) on the boundary of outer space
  7. Frédéric Paulin, Actions de groupes sur les arbres

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