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Hitchin, N.J. (1990). The geometry and topology of moduli spaces. In: Francaviglia, M., Gherardelli, F. (eds) Global Geometry and Mathematical Physics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1451. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0085064

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