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-cohomology for groups of isometries of Hadamard spaces
Ursula Hamenstädt
We show that a discrete group which admits a non-elementary isometric action on a Hadamard manifold of bounded negative curvature admits an isometric action on an -space $…
Actions of finitely generated groups on compact metric spaces
Ursula Hamenstädt
Let be a finitely generated group which admits an action by homeomorphisms on a compact metrizable space . We show that there is a metric on defining the original topolo…
The Geometry of the Handlebody Groups II: Dehn functions
Ursula Hamenstädt, Sebastian Hensel
We show that the Dehn function of the handlebody group is exponential in any genus . On the other hand, we show that the handlebody group of genus is cubical, biautoma…
Isometry groups of proper hyperbolic spaces
Ursula Hamenstadt
Let X be a proper hyperbolic geodesic metric space and let G be a closed subgroup of the isometry group Iso(X) of X. We show that if G is not amenable then its second continuous bo…