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AMALGAMATED PRODUCTS, CRITICAL EXPONENTS AND UNIFORM GROWTH OF GROUPS: A UNIFIED APPROACH

  • Besson, Gerard (Institut Fourier and C.N.R.S. Universite de Grenoble I)
  • Published : 2007.09.30
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Abstract

The aim of this note is to advertise a method which turns out to be powerful enough to be used successfully in problems which are apparently unrelated. It is based on a modification of a construction that we first introduced in [2].

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