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Formanek, E. (1987). The invariants of n×n matrices. In: Koh, S.S. (eds) Invariant Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0078804

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