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Gross, L. (1982). Thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and random fields. In: Hennequin, P.L. (eds) Ecole d'Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour X - 1980. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 929. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0095619

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