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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 27–34, July, 1979.
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Lukatskii, A.M. A system of generators in the group of diffeomorphisms of the n-dimensional torus. Mathematical Notes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 26, 504–508 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01140269
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