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The notion of growth was studied originally in the context of riemannian geometry. Several authors, among them Bishop, Milnor and Wolf, established relations between the mean curvature of a complete riemannian manifold and the growth of its fundamental group; see [Bis],[Mi 2], [Wo 1].
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© 1983 Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig
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Hector, G., Hirsch, U. (1983). Growth. In: Introduction to the Geometry of Foliation, Part B. Aspects of Mathematics / Aspekte der Mathematik, vol 3. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-85619-7_6
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