On Whitney numbers of Dowling lattices

Discrete Mathematics

Volumn 159, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 13-33

  Benoumhani, Moussa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

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EID: 0010960802     PISSN: 0012365X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-365X(95)00095-E     Document Type: Article

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