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The first author was partially supported by the UMR 7539 of the CNRS, while the second author was partially supported by BSF Grant 97-00042 and by Grant 6782-1-95 from the Israeli Ministry of Science and Art.
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Oliver, B., Segev, Y. Fixed point free actions onZ-acyclic 2-complexes. Acta Math. 189, 203–285 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02392843
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