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Applications of Padé approximations to the Grothendieck conjecture on linear differential equations

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Chudnovsky, D.V., Chudnovsky, G.V. (1985). Applications of Padé approximations to the Grothendieck conjecture on linear differential equations. In: Chudnovsky, D.V., Chudnovsky, G.V., Cohn, H., Nathanson, M.B. (eds) Number Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1135. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0074601

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