Proper actions of lattices on contractible manifolds

DOI10.1007/s00222-002-0239-6zbMath1041.57015arXivmath/0011238OpenAlexW1994433622MaRDI QIDQ1401449

Mladen Bestvina, Mark E. Feighn

Publication date: 17 August 2003

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0011238

zbMATH Keywords

manifoldproper group action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

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