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On the asymptotic geometry of abelian-by-cyclic groups

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    Benson Farb

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Rutgers University, 07102, Newark, NJ, U.S.A.

    Lee Mosher

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The first author was supported in part by NSF Grant DMS 9704640, by IHES and by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The second author was supported in part by NSF Grant DMS 9504946 and by IHES.

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Farb, B., Mosher, L. On the asymptotic geometry of abelian-by-cyclic groups. Acta Math. 184, 145–202 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02392628

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