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Olive, D. (1971). Singularities in relativistic quantum mechanics. In: Wall, C.T.C. (eds) Proceedings of Liverpool Singularities Symposium II. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 209. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0068909
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