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The Lefschetz number of an involution on the space of classes of positive definite quadratic forms

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Rohles, J. The Lefschetz number of an involution on the space of classes of positive definite quadratic forms. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 56, 272–296 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02566213

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