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The work presented here was performed at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences with the partial support of the National Science Foundation under NSF Grant No. DMS-9112664, which is gratefully acknowledged.

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McKean, H.P. (2000). Shallow Water & the Diffeomorphism Group. In: Spigler, R. (eds) Applied and Industrial Mathematics, Venice—2, 1998. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4193-2_8

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