The center and cyclicity problems: A computational algebra approach

The Center and Cyclicity Problems: A Computational Algebra Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-330

  Romanovski, Valery ^a   Shafer, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-8176-4727-8     Document Type: Book

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