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Sandling, R. (1981). Graham Higman's Thesis “Units in Group Rings”. In: Roggenkamp, K.W. (eds) Integral Representations and Applications. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 882. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0092488

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