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Quasi-flats and rigidity
in higher rank symmetric spaces


Authors: Alex Eskin and Benson Farb
Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 10 (1997), 653-692
MSC (1991): Primary 22E40, 20F32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-97-00238-5
MathSciNet review: 1434399
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Alex Eskin
Email: eskin@math.uchicago.edu

Benson Farb
Email: farb@math.uchicago.edu

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-97-00238-5
Keywords: Lie groups, discrete subgroups, geometric group theory
Received by editor(s): March 8, 1996
Received by editor(s) in revised form: March 10, 1997
Additional Notes: Both authors are supported in part by N.S.F. Postdoctoral Fellowships. The work of the second author at MSRI was supported by NSF grant DMS-9022140.
Article copyright: © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society