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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 15–26, June, 1992.
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Verbovetskii, A.M., Vinogradov, A.M. & Gessler, D.M. Scalar differential invariants and characteristic classes of homogeneous geometrical structures. Math Notes 51, 543–549 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01263295
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