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Haas, A. (1987). The geometry of Markoff forms. In: Chudnovsky, D.V., Chudnovsky, G.V., Cohn, H., Nathanson, M.B. (eds) Number Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1240. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0072978
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