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11 - Thompson's Group F is Not Liouville

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2017

Vadim A. Kaimanovich
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, 585 King Edward, Ottawa ON, K1N 6N5, Canada
Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein
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Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy
Maura Salvatori
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Università degli Studi di Milano
Ecaterina Sava-Huss
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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