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Hyperbolic groups have finite asymptotic dimension
Author(s):
John
Roe
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
133
(2005),
2489-2490.
MSC (2000):
Primary 20F67;
Secondary 55M10
Posted:
April 8, 2005
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Abstract:
We detail a proof of a result of Gromov, that hyperbolic groups (and metric spaces) have finite asymptotic dimension. This fact has become important in recent work on the Novikov conjecture.
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Additional Information:
John
Roe
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
Email:
roe@math.psu.edu
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-05-08138-4
PII:
S 0002-9939(05)08138-4
Keywords:
Gromov hyperbolicity,
coarse geometry,
asymptotic dimension
Received by editor(s):
May 1, 2002
Posted:
April 8, 2005
Additional Notes:
The author was supported in part by NSF Grant \#0100464.
Communicated by:
Mohan Ramachandran
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2005,
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