Geometry of the mapping class groups. I: Boundary amenability

DOI10.1007/s00222-008-0158-2zbMath1197.57003arXivmath/0510116OpenAlexW2144874191WikidataQ61386928 ScholiaQ61386928MaRDI QIDQ1006877

Ursula Hamenstädt

Publication date: 26 March 2009

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510116

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class grouptrain tracksboundary amenabilitycocycle super-rigidityNovikov higher order signature conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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