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1 | (50) |
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1.1 Manifolds and Differentiable Manifolds |
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1 | (7) |
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8 | (5) |
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1.3 Submanifolds and Foliations |
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13 | (3) |
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16 | (20) |
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1.5 Existence of Geodesies on Compact Manifolds |
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36 | (3) |
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1.6 The Heat Flow and the Existence of Geodesies |
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39 | (4) |
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1.7 Existence of Geodesies on Complete Manifolds |
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43 | (8) |
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Basic Exercises for Chap. 1 |
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46 | (2) |
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Further Exercises for Chap. 1 |
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48 | (3) |
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2 Lie Groups and Vector Bundles |
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51 | (64) |
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51 | (10) |
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2.2 Complex and Holomorphic Vector Bundles: Almost Complex and Complex Manifolds |
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61 | (4) |
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2.3 Integral Curves of Vector Fields: Lie Algebras |
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65 | (11) |
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2.4 Symplectic Structures |
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76 | (6) |
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82 | (6) |
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88 | (27) |
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Basic Exercises for Chap. 2 |
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112 | (2) |
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Further Exercises for Chap. 2 |
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114 | (1) |
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3 The Laplace Operator and Harmonic Differential Forms |
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115 | (48) |
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3.1 The Laplace Operator on Functions |
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115 | (6) |
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3.2 The Spectrum of the Laplace Operator |
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121 | (10) |
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3.3 The Laplace Operator on Forms |
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131 | (12) |
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3.4 Representing Cohomology Classes by Harmonic Forms |
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143 | (10) |
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3.5 The Heat Flow and Harmonic Forms |
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153 | (10) |
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Basic Exercises for Chap. 3 |
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159 | (2) |
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Further Exercises for Chap. 3 |
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161 | (2) |
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4 Connections and Curvature |
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163 | (70) |
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4.1 Connections in Vector Bundles |
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163 | (13) |
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4.2 Metric Connections. The Yang--Mills Functional |
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176 | (17) |
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4.3 The Levi-Civita Connection |
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193 | (20) |
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4.4 Connections for Spin Structures and the Dirac Operator |
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213 | (7) |
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220 | (7) |
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4.6 Eigenvalue Estimates by the Method of Li--Yau |
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227 | (6) |
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Basic Exercises for Chap. 4 |
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232 | (1) |
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Further Exercises for Chap. 4 |
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232 | (1) |
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5 Geometry of Submanifolds |
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233 | (18) |
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5.1 The Second Fundamental Form |
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233 | (3) |
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5.2 The Curvature of Submanifolds |
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236 | (4) |
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5.3 The Volume of Submanifolds |
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240 | (3) |
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243 | (8) |
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Basic Exercises for Chap. 5 |
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248 | (1) |
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Further Exercises for Chap. 5 |
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248 | (3) |
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6 Geodesies and Jacobi Fields |
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251 | (66) |
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6.1 First and Second Variation of Arc Length and Energy |
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251 | (6) |
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257 | (10) |
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6.3 Conjugate Points and Distance Minimizing Geodesies |
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267 | (9) |
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6.4 Riemannian Manifolds of Constant Curvature |
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276 | (3) |
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6.5 The Rauch Comparison Theorems and Other Jacobi Field Estimates |
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279 | (6) |
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6.6 The Hessian of the Squared Distance Function |
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285 | (3) |
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288 | (5) |
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6.8 Approximate Fundamental Solutions and Representation Formulas |
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293 | (2) |
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6.9 The Geometry of Manifolds of Nonpositive Sectional Curvature |
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295 | (22) |
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Basic Exercises for Chap. 6 |
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313 | (1) |
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Further Exercises for Chap. 6 |
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313 | (4) |
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A Short Survey on Curvature and Topology |
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317 | (340) |
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7 Symmetric Spaces and Kahler Manifolds |
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327 | (64) |
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7.1 Complex Projective Space |
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327 | (7) |
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334 | (12) |
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7.3 The Geometry of Symmetric Spaces |
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346 | (12) |
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7.4 Some Results About the Structure of Symmetric Spaces |
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358 | (7) |
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7.5 The Space Sl(n, R)/SO(n, R) |
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365 | (20) |
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7.6 Symmetric Spaces of Noncompact Type as Examples of Nonpositively Curved Riemannian Manifolds |
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385 | (6) |
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Basic Exercises for Chap. 7 |
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390 | (1) |
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Further Exercises for Chap. 7 |
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390 | (1) |
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8 Morse Theory and Floer Homology |
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391 | (98) |
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8.1 Preliminaries: Aims of Morse Theory |
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391 | (5) |
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8.2 Compactness: The Palais--Smale Condition and the Existence of Saddle Points |
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396 | (3) |
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8.3 Local Analysis: Nondegeneracy of Critical Points, Morse Lemma, Stable and Unstable Manifolds |
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399 | (16) |
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8.4 Limits of Trajectories of the Gradient Flow |
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415 | (8) |
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8.5 The Morse--Smale--Floer Condition: Transversality and Z2-Cohomology |
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423 | (7) |
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8.6 Orientations and Z-homology |
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430 | (4) |
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434 | (5) |
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439 | (4) |
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443 | (17) |
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8.10 The Morse Inequalities |
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460 | (12) |
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8.11 The Palais--Smale Condition and the Existence of Closed Geodesies |
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472 | (17) |
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486 | (3) |
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9 Harmonic Maps Between Riemannian Manifolds |
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489 | (84) |
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489 | (8) |
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9.2 Formulas for Harmonic Maps: The Bochner Technique |
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497 | (12) |
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9.3 Definition and Lower Semicontinuity of the Energy Integral |
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509 | (12) |
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521 | (12) |
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9.5 Harmonic Maps into Manifolds of Nonpositive Sectional Curvature: Existence |
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533 | (7) |
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9.6 Harmonic Maps into Manifolds of Nonpositive Sectional Curvature: Regularity |
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540 | (23) |
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9.7 Harmonic Maps into Manifolds of Nonpositive Curvature: Uniqueness and Other Properties |
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563 | (10) |
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Basic Exercises for Chap. 9 |
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569 | (1) |
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Further Exercises for Chap. 9 |
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570 | (3) |
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10 Harmonic Maps from Riemann Surfaces |
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573 | (58) |
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10.1 Two-dimensional Harmonic Mappings and Holomorphic Quadratic Differentials |
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573 | (15) |
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10.2 The Existence of Harmonic Maps in Two Dimensions |
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588 | (25) |
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613 | (18) |
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Basic Exercises for Chap. 10 |
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628 | (1) |
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Further Exercises for Chap. 10 |
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629 | (2) |
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11 Variational Problems from Quantum Field Theory |
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631 | (26) |
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11.1 The Ginzburg--Landau Functional |
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631 | (9) |
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11.2 The Seiberg--Witten Functional |
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640 | (7) |
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647 | (10) |
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655 | (2) |
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A Linear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations |
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657 | (12) |
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657 | (5) |
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A.2 Existence and Regularity Theory for Solutions of Linear Elliptic Equations |
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662 | (4) |
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A.3 Existence and Regularity Theory for Solutions of Linear Parabolic Equations |
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666 | (3) |
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B Fundamental Groups and Covering Spaces |
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669 | (6) |
Bibliography |
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675 | (16) |
Index |
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