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Additional Information
  • Gunnar Carlsson
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
  • MR Author ID: 45435
  • Received by editor(s): August 1, 2008
  • Published electronically: January 29, 2009
  • Additional Notes: Research supported in part by DARPA HR 0011-05-1-0007 and NSF DMS 0354543
  • © Copyright 2009 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (2009), 255-308
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01249-X
  • MathSciNet review: 2476414