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The authors were partially supported by NSF Grants DMS 8901583 and 9101575 (K) and DM 8902543 and 9102711 (S), respectively. The second named author would like to thank Northwestern University for access to its facilities during portions of this work.

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Kwasik, S., Schultz, R. Icosahedral group actions on R3 . Invent Math 108, 385–402 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02100611

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