A tale of two vectors

Dialectica

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 397-431

  Lange, Marc ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-8361.2009.01207.x     Document Type: Article

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