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Acknowledgments

A portion of this work was carried out while M. R. Pournaki was visiting the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during June and July 2015. He wishes to express his gratitude to Professor A. Y. M. Chin for her warm hospitality. The work of Chin and Pournaki was supported in part by a grant from the University of Malaya (UMRG No. RG337-15AFR).

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  1. Faculty of Science, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 50603, Malaysia

    A. Y. M. Chin

  2. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 11155-9415, Iran

    M. R. Pournaki

  3. School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    S. A. Seyed Fakhari & S. Yassemi

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Chin, A.Y.M., Pournaki, M.R., Seyed Fakhari, S.A. et al. Combinatorics Comes to the Rescue: h-Vectors in Commutative Algebra. Math Intelligencer 41, 16–21 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-018-9826-2

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