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Generalized Dehn-Sommerville relations for polytopes, spheres and Eulerian partially ordered sets

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Bayer, M.M., Billera, L.J. Generalized Dehn-Sommerville relations for polytopes, spheres and Eulerian partially ordered sets. Invent Math 79, 143–157 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01388660

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