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All issues Volume 21 / No 1 (January-March 2015) ESAIM: COCV, 21 1 (2015) 101-137 References
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ESAIM: COCV
Volume 21, Number 1, January-March 2015
Page(s) 101 - 137
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2014025
Published online 03 December 2014
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