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- Sun-Yung Alice Chang
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
- MR Author ID: 47365
- ORCID: 0000-0003-1790-712X
- Email: chang@math.princeton.edu
- Received by editor(s): June 30, 2004
- Published electronically: April 13, 2005
- Additional Notes: The research of Chang is supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-0245266
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