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Dedicated toBarthel v. d. Waerden on his 60th birthday
This work was supported in part by a grant of the National Science Foundation while the author was visiting the University of Notre Dame and the California Institute of Technology.
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Roquette, P. On the Galois cohomology of the projective linear group and its applications to the construction of generic splitting fields of algebras. Math. Ann. 150, 411–439 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01357435
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