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Sharon Frechette1, Ken Ono, Matthew Papanikolas

  • 1Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA 01610, USA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|November 26, 2004
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