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  1. Evelyn L. Hart
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  1. University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    R. F. Brown

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics ‘G. Sansone', Florence, Italy

    M. Furi

  3. Juliusz Schauder Center of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

    L. Górniewicz

  4. Department of Mathematics, Peking University, Beijing, China

    B. Jiang

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Hart, E.L. (2005). Algebraic Techniques for Calculating the Nielsen Number on Hyperbolic Surfaces. In: Brown, R.F., Furi, M., Górniewicz, L., Jiang, B. (eds) Handbook of Topological Fixed Point Theory. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3222-6_13

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