The Poisson Boundary of the Mapping Class Group and of Teichmüller Space

Kaimanovich, Vadim A.; Masur, Howard

Publications de l'Institut de recherche mathématiques de Rennes, Fascicule de probabilités, no. 2 (1994), article no. 4, 69 p.

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