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Various catastrophe machines

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Poston, T. (1976). Various catastrophe machines. In: Hilton, P. (eds) Structural Stability, the Theory of Catastrophes, and Applications in the Sciences. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 525. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0077848

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