Point configurations that are asymmetric yet balanced

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2863-2872

  Cohn, Henry ^a   Elkies, Noam D ^b   Kumar, Abhinav ^c   Schürmann, Achill ^d  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77952033774     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-10-10284-6     Document Type: Article

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