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Algebraic Automorphisms of Affine Space

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Book cover Topological Methods in Algebraic Transformation Groups

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The following article is an updated version of the report [Kr85]; for convenience of the reader we have incorporated most of the material of that paper. Some other aspects can be found in the article [Ba85] of BASS.

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Kraft, H. (1989). Algebraic Automorphisms of Affine Space. In: Kraft, H., Petrie, T., Schwarz, G.W. (eds) Topological Methods in Algebraic Transformation Groups. Progress in Mathematics, vol 80. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3702-0_6

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