Kummer Covers with Many Points
β Scribed by Gerard van der Geer; Marcel van der Vlugt
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1071-5797
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