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Induced quasi-actions: A remark

Author(s): Bruce Kleiner; Bernhard Leeb
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 1561-1567.
MSC (2000): Primary 20F65
Posted: November 13, 2008
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Abstract: We observe that the notion of an induced representation has an analog for quasi-actions and give some applications.

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Additional Information:

Bruce Kleiner
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
Address at time of publication: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 251 Mercer Street, New York, New York 10012-1185
Email: bkleiner@cims.nyu.edu

Bernhard Leeb
Affiliation: Mathematisches Institut, Universität München, Theresienstr. 39, D-80333 München, Germany
Email: b.l@lmu.de

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09742-6
PII: S 0002-9939(08)09742-6
Received by editor(s): February 25, 2008,
Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 23, 2008
Posted: November 13, 2008
Additional Notes: The first author was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS 0701515
Communicated by: Alexander N. Dranishnikov
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society

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