The conceptual necessity of phases: Some remarks on the minimalist enterprise

Explorations of Phase Theory: Interpretation at the Interfaces

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 253-275

  Ott, Dennis ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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