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On the real spectrum of a ring and its application to semialgebraic geometry

Author(s): Eberhard Becker
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (1986), 19-60.
MSC (1985): Primary 14G30, 12D15
MathSciNet review: 838786
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DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1986-15431-5
PII: S 0273-0979(1986)15431-5

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