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The first author was supported by NSF and MSRI Postdoctoral Fellowships and the Sonderforschungsbereich SFB 256 at Bonn.
The second author was supported by an MSRI Postdoctoral Fellowship, the SFB 256 and IHES.
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Kleiner, B., Leeb, B. Rigidity of quasi-isometries for symmetric spaces and Euclidean buildings. Publications Mathématiques de L’Institut des Hautes Scientifiques 86, 115–197 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02698902
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