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Mladen Bestvina, Mark Feighn, Michael Handel, The Tits Alternative for out(Fn) I: Dynamics of Exponentially-Growing Automorphisms, Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, Vol. 151, No. 2 (Mar., 2000), pp. 517-623
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