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Noether's problem over an algebraically closed field

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The author is grateful for support from the Sloan Foundation and from the NSF grant #MCS-8303356

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Saltman, D.J. Noether's problem over an algebraically closed field. Invent Math 77, 71–84 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01389135

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