Hyperbolic groups have finite asymptotic dimension

John Roe

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-05-08138-4

Hyperbolic groups have finite asymptotic dimension

John Roe

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2489-2490
Number of pages	2
Journal	Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
Volume	133
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-05-08138-4
State	Published - Sep 2005

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General Mathematics
Applied Mathematics

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