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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 111–124, January, 1984.

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Solov'ev, A.F. Curvature of a distribution. Mathematical Notes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 35, 61–68 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01142297

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