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Lévy-Leblond, JM. (1976). What is so “special” about “relativity”?. In: Janner, A., Janssen, T., Boon, M. (eds) Group Theoretical Methods in Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-07789-8_67
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