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A quick review of Gromov hyperbolic spaces

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Coornaert, M., Papadopoulos, A. (1993). A quick review of Gromov hyperbolic spaces. In: Symbolic Dynamics and Hyperbolic Groups. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1539. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0092579

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