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Boyer, C.P. (1983). The geometry of complex self-dual Einstein spaces. In: Wolf, K.B. (eds) Nonlinear Phenomena. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 189. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-12730-5_2
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