Geometric group actions on trees

DOI10.1353/ajm.1997.0003zbMath0878.20019OpenAlexW2156713824MaRDI QIDQ3123140

Frédéric Paulin, Gilbert Levitt

Publication date: 29 October 1997

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_journal_of_mathematics/toc/ajm119.1.html

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsgeometric actionsuniversal coveringsfinitely presented groupsbranch pointsmeasured foliations2-complexes\(R\)-treessimplicial actionsnormal coveringsedge stabilizersstrong limitsgroups of covering transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Groups acting on trees (20E08)

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