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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri—Columbia, 65211, Columbia, MO, USA

    John K. Beem & Paul E. Ehrlich

  2. Mathematical Institute, The Technical University of Denmark, Building 303, DK-2800, Lyngby, Denmark

    Steen Markvorsen

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Supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant number DMS-8601342.

Supported in part by the Danish Natural Science Research Council.

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Beem, J.K., Ehrlich, P.E. & Markvorsen, S. Timelike isometries and killing fields. Geom Dedicata 26, 247–258 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00183017

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