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  1. Department of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Shiri Chechik

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Ming-Yang Kao

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Chechik, S. (2016). Additive Spanners. In: Kao, MY. (eds) Encyclopedia of Algorithms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2864-4_562

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