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Semenov, A.L. (1984). Decidability of monadic theories. In: Chytil, M.P., Koubek, V. (eds) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 1984. MFCS 1984. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 176. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0030296

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