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6 - The Atiyah conjecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2016

Peter A. Linnell
Affiliation:
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
C. S. Aravinda
Affiliation:
TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India
F. T. Farrell
Affiliation:
Tsinghua University, Beijing
J. -F. Lafont
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
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