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Translated from Teoriya Funktsii, Funktsional'nyi Analiz i Ikh Prilozheniya, No. 46, pp. 100–111, 1986.
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Smilyanskii, V.R. Reduction of a system of ordinary linear differential equations of an arbitrary positive rank to a system of the first rank. 1. J Math Sci 48, 579–588 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01095628
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