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Arnaud Amzallag1, Cédric Vaillant, Mathews Jacob

  • 1Laboratory for Computation and Visualization in Mathematics and Mechanics, EPFL FSB IMB, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. arnaud.amzallag@epfl.ch

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