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On the girth of groups acting on CAT(0) cube complexes

Arka Banerjee, Daniel L Gulbrandsen, Pratyush Mishra and Prayagdeep Parija

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 26 (2026) 2539–2558

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2026.26.2539

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