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Analytic torsion and -torsion for unimodular representations

Author(s): Werner Müller
Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 6 (1993), 721-753.
MSC: Primary 58G26; Secondary 57Q10, 58G11
MathSciNet review: 1189689
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