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Nilpotent action by an amenable group and Euler characteristic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Jong Bum Lee
Jong Bum Lee
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Department of Mathematics, Sogang University, Seoul 121–742, Korea, E-mail address: [email protected]
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We prove two types of vanishing results for the Euler characteristic.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , February 1999 , pp. 77 - 82
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1999

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