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Dedicated to E.B. Dynkin on his 60th birthday

This is a longer version of the preprint MSRI 023-84-7, April 1984

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Kac, V.G. Torsion in cohomology of compact Lie groups and Chow rings of reductive algebraic groups. Invent Math 80, 69–79 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01388548

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