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Dubrovin, B. (1996). Geometry of 2D topological field theories. In: Francaviglia, M., Greco, S. (eds) Integrable Systems and Quantum Groups. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1620. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0094793

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