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Wong, P. (2005). Fixed Point Theory for Homogeneous Spaces A Brief Survey. In: Brown, R.F., Furi, M., Górniewicz, L., Jiang, B. (eds) Handbook of Topological Fixed Point Theory. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3222-6_7

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